Real estate

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.

Black households have significantly less purchasing power when it comes to buying a home compared with other races, a Zillow study said.

North Texas homebuilders ramped up for the spring and summer housing market with an increase in first quarter starts.

Home sale prices across Connecticut jumped for the second month in a row in February, but the sales volume was weak, and some experts said it it still too early in the year to declare the start of a trend.

Here's a look at 12 housing markets where healthy rents, high home prices and historically low mortgage rates have prompted a boom in single-family rental inventory.

Williston, N.D., is in the midst of a single-family housing shortage that promises only to get worse as oil and gas activity picks up for the season.

Housing sentiment remained volatile in March as consumers reporting that now is a good time to buy a home rose from the previous month, according to Fannie Mae.

Home prices in the Tampa Bay area continue to climb, and once again the price jumps were due to the scant supply of moderately priced homes.

Spring has sprung and weather temps should be going up, but Chicago rent prices are going down — that's according to Zumper, an apartment listing platform.

New residents to the Bay Area are earning far more than the people they're chasing out, a new report says, pushing up home prices and highlighting the gap between owners and renters in Silicon Valley.

The median sales price of a single-family home in Santa Fe, N.M., rose nearly 12% in the first quarter over the same period last year.

An improved Colorado Springs economy helped propel buyer demand for new homes during the first quarter.

Clark County, Nev., is applying for millions in federal dollars to fund low-income housing and fight homelessness.

Single-family-home prices in metro Denver continued to perform gravity-defying feats of appreciation last month, as sellers as buyers alike raced to join the spring home-selling circus.

Home sales in Manhattan plunged by the most since the recession as buyers at all price levels drove hard bargains and were in no rush to close deals.

The new federal budget approved this month boosted tax credits for corporations that help finance low-cost housing but the move is unlikely to help a long-stalled 63-unit affordable housing project with a $5 million funding gap.

Home values grew in all 50 states in February, but their appreciation is expected to slow within the next year, according to CoreLogic.