Housing markets

Applications for loans on newly built homes are still up considerably from a year ago, but they were down a little from October in the Mortgage Bankers Association’s latest survey.

With coronavirus inoculations underway and government stimulus likely to come, the outlook for next year’s housing market and lending environment grew more optimistic in December.

The affordable housing nonprofit's Equitable Path Forward initiative seeks to eliminate "the deep-rooted legacy of racism in housing."

The industry is now likely to top 2019's nearly $16 billion in premiums written.

Albuquerque, N.M., home prices dipped slightly from October to November, but still remained well above where they stood 12 months earlier.

The average gain per homeowner on a year-over-year basis was the most in six years.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has done nothing to quell the upward trajectory of home prices in Southern Nevada.

While distressed mortgage rates crept down overall, serious delinquencies still tripled year-ago rates in September, according to CoreLogic.

Despite an unpredictable year, one degree of normalcy has returned to Seattle-area home sales: In a dip typical of the winter season, fewer homes were on the market in November and fewer new sellers were listing.

Employment worries and the pandemic's ongoing obstacles for home buying wore down consumer confidence in November, according to Fannie Mae.

Strong demand by buyers bidding above asking price helped push up the median resale price of single-family homes on Oahu to $872,500 in November, the second highest ever.

Mortgage rates dropped a basis point this week, reaching the lowest level since Freddie Mac started tracking this data, even though yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury increased 7 basis points.

The head of the Federal Housing Administration said Congress should consider whether to continue allowing the loan floor and ceiling to remain tied to changes in the conforming mortgage limit.

This fall's red-hot housing market in Duluth, Minn., has more than made up for time lost to the pandemic this spring.

October's annual appreciation rate was at its fastest since April 2014, CoreLogic said.

Tough competition for home listings makes consumers more likely to misrepresent themselves on loan applications.

Metro Denver's housing market seems unstoppable, setting record after record in the resale market and leading the country for the gain in pending new home sales.

A gauge of contract signings to purchase previously owned homes unexpectedly declined for a second month in October as higher prices and a limited number of listings impeded momentum in the housing market.

Oklahoma City area homebuilders are building more houses than they have in seven years, but the market keeps soaking them up, as well as previously owned homes — amid a pandemic and rolling business shutdowns.

Marin County, Calif., detached home sales in October were up 25% over last year as the coronavirus pandemic continued to shake up conventional market trends.