Real estate

Homeownership levels reached their highest point since the third quarter of 2014, but some races saw their rates fall, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Would-be homebuyers in New York's Hamptons are holding off on purchases as they wait for sellers to bring prices down.

The Marin, County, Calif., median home price jumped to $1.165 million in June, up 8.4% over the $1.075 million median price in June 2017.

International activity in the U.S. real estate market plummeted as foreign homebuyers are competing with domestic purchasers for a limited supply of homes, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Blackstone Group has made its first bet on manufactured housing by buying a portfolio of communities sold by Tricon Capital Group.

Although the number of sales slowed, Rhode Island's median house price for the second quarter, $280,000, was the highest quarterly price in 11 years.

Home prices slipped across Manhattan and Brooklyn last quarter, but rose in Queens, according to a new report.

Both home price increases and the reduction in the houses for sale inventory slowed in June, a good sign for purchase activity picking up in the second half of the year, according to Redfin.

One of the biggest trade secrets cases in U.S. history took a bizarre turn, with the company that lost a $706 million jury verdict saying it uncovered "bombshell" evidence of fraud thanks to whistle blowers who used to work for the winning side.

Income inequality is a significant challenge facing America. But when it comes to real estate values in local markets, significant price inequality may actually help homebuyers.

Fairfield County dominates the state's residential real estate market — but experts still see room for improvement.

Rising demand and declining housing inventory are pushing home sales faster and at higher median prices than ever before, according to Remax.

There was little doubt, but new figures from the Toledo Regional Association of Realtors confirm that any lingering effects from the Great Recession on the northwest Ohio market are pretty much gone.

Lennar Corp., the Twin Cities' top homebuilder, plans to convert the vacant land commonly referred to as the "Prince Property" into a neighborhood with 200 market-rate and luxury houses.

Despite dipping in June, Central Texas home sales were up in the first half of the year over the first six months of 2017, likely putting the region's housing market on track for another record year.

New-home groundbreaking and permits fell in June to the slowest pace in nine months, as higher mortgage rates and elevated costs for labor and materials pinch the housing market.

June home sales couldn't keep pace with last year's levels.

Fewer sales of existing homes and uncertainty around future fiscal policies will result in fewer mortgage originations than previously expected, according to Fannie Mae.

A 6.8% increase year-over-year pushed the midpoint sale price of a home in Central Florida to $239,180 in June, the 84th straight month of increases.

Dallas-Fort Worth has had some of the biggest home price increases in the country since the Great Recession.