Housing market

Though potential homeownership demand declined moderately between 2015 and 2016, the underlying fundamentals for demand remained positive.

After a strong sales bump in June, the Sonoma County, Calif., housing market declined in July to the slowest pace of sales in seven years.

Canada’s benchmark home price fell by the most in nearly a decade last month as Toronto led a fourth straight decline in sales.

Recent data from an analytic company shows that Staten Island, N.Y., home values have increased dramatically over a 35-year period while income rates have not seen the same hike.

Maui's housing market in July had fewer sales but at higher prices, according to the Realtors Association of Maui.

Housing starts faltered in July on an abrupt slowdown in apartment construction and a modest decline in single-family homebuilding that shows the industry will do little to spur the economy.

Sentiment among American homebuilders unexpectedly increased to a three-month high as builders saw greater prospects for industry demand despite elevated material costs and shortages of labor and lots.

Housing affordability dipped as rising home prices offset a quarter-point drop in mortgage interest rates.

Normally among the hottest times of the year to buy or sell a house, July came up tepid in metropolitan Milwaukee.

The mortgage market is transforming at breakneck pace, with bank and nonbank mortgage lenders investing heavily in digitizing their process, improving the customer experience, and speeding time to close.