Real estate

After a strong kick-off to the 2018 housing market, only time will tell how rising interest rates will affect Staten Island, N.Y., residential real estate sales.

With a healthy economy and high demand for housing, Madison, Wis., set a record for the value of the average single-family home and saw strong growth in commercial values, especially big apartment buildings with 50 or more units.

Here's some good news for New York City apartment hunters: Manhattan rents dropped 3.8% in March from a year earlier, the most since 2011.

The Santa Fe, N.M., housing market is a typical example of supply and demand at work.

March mortgage applications for new home purchases were stronger than in February but lenders didn't produce as many of them as they did a year ago.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles said that she plans to seek $50 million in affordable housing bonds in the fall, more than tripling the amount of local money available for low-income housing.

Zillow Group Inc. plans to start buying houses directly from sellers to test its ability to make money by flipping real estate.

Automating the mortgage process will force tighter margins, but drive higher volume, for lenders.

Houses are taking longer to sell and sales across the region fell last month for the first time since Hurricane Harvey, a new housing report shows.

Maui had a small decline in the number of homes sold last month while median prices moved in different directions for single-family homes and condominiums.