Housing markets

Mortgage rates fell to their lowest level since October as the financial markets reacted to rising tensions caused by the U.S. government's killing of an Iranian general, Freddie Mac said.

December home sales in the Houston area jumped 14% from the year before, capping a dramatic turnaround over the course of 2019.

The new owner of a 12-bedroom, $94 million home purchased in October received a $58 million, 10-year mortgage from HSBC.

Stock prices rose for publicly-traded homebuilders after Lennar Corp.'s fourth-quarter orders and revenue beat estimates, even as home prices fell in the quarter.

The Las Vegas housing market continues to ride a wave of stability as the median price for an existing single-family home in Southern Nevada last month was just under $313,000.

Consumer perception of the housing market ticked up slightly in December, as potential buyers remain bullish about making a home purchase in 2020, a Fannie Mae report said.

A fight over how to fix California's worst-in-the-nation housing shortage is about to heat up again in Sacramento.

Home sales dropped in Toronto in December, but prices continued to rise as demand outstripped a dwindling supply of units available for purchase.

Home prices in 10 states are still valued below the peaks reached before the Great Recession, according to a new report by CoreLogic, a real estate analytics company.

Homebuyers in metro Denver will need to put aside visions of a more bountiful banquet of properties for sale as current owners are staying in their homes.

For decades, Seattle has been primarily a city of homeowners, but those days may be coming to an end. It's one of the many ways that the city's current population boom has been transformative.

A group of Massachusetts lawmakers, local elected officials and housing advocates plan to launch a new coalition next week to advocate for real estate transfer fee legislation.

Home sales in the borough slipped 1.2% in the fourth quarter, and that's the best news for the market in two years.

A panel of real estate experts and economists believe the hottest markets of 2020 will all come from below the Mason-Dixon Line and that California prices will fade, according to Zillow.

Whatcom County in northwestern Washington state went from falling prices and plenty of inventory in 2009 to high prices and low inventory in 2019

Metro Denver home prices, after years of effervescent gains, are going as flat as that unfinished bottle of champagne.

Median sale prices for existing single-family homes rose in November, up 6.1% to $222,900 in Volusia County, and up 4.7% to $235,400 in Flagler County.

Median Santa Fe home sale prices slowed in November from their relentless increases in recent years with a median sales price of $369,750, an 11.8% drop from the previous November and $18,000 lower than October.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose at the best pace in five months in October, posting a second straight acceleration as real estate markets showed fresh strength at the start of the fourth quarter.

Kansas City metro home prices are growing faster than rates in most U.S. cities, including boomtowns like Denver, Nashville and Austin.