Housing markets

Colorado Springs-area homebuyers continued to find slim pickings last month, as the supply of local properties available for purchase remained at historically low levels.

Most commercial and multifamily loan delinquency rates remained near record lows in the third quarter extending a long run of declines in the securitized market, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

According to a survey by the National Association of Realtors, 12% of homebuyers in 2019 bought a multigenerational home.

Denmark’s housing minister says he would find a 10% market decline an acceptable outcome as he tries to alter the law to prevent speculation

Last month, brokers anticipated local residential markets swinging, if ever so slightly, to give buyers more bargaining power.

Fewer houses for sale, less buying and another monthly dip in prices could be bringing a modest correction to the sky-high Bay Area housing market.

More than two years ago, San Francisco adopted an aggressive plan to add more housing, including affordable homes, along transit corridors. But can it fulfill its promise?

Southern California appreciation rates rebounded in October, hitting the highest levels since last spring, according to the latest CoreLogic Home Price Index.

Mortgage-bond investors will need to absorb about 26% more agency MBS supply in 2020 as both home sales and prices continue to climb, according to the average estimate of six of Wall Street's biggest dealers.

Connecticut single-family home sale prices in October reached their highest level in 12 years for the month, a bit of welcome news in a housing market that is looking for a boost in a decade-plus recovery.

Millennials took advantage of the low mortgage rate landscape in October, boosting their refinance share to a survey-record high, according to Ellie Mae.

The Federal Housing Administration's loan limits will generally increase 5% next year, but changes in the composition of statistical areas will lead to decreases in 11 counties.

The vision underpinning the American dream — of fresh-faced young people buying a first home with a white-picket fence — hasn't held up well.

If Denver-area buyers were expecting a bounty of homes to choose from this holiday season, they are going to be sorely disappointed. Sellers are playing the grinch as 2019 draws to a close.

Toronto's home prices extended gains in November, and are now accelerating at the fastest annual pace since 2017 as demand continues to outpace a dwindling supply of listings.

The Huntsville, Ala., housing market continues strong with more homes sold in the third quarter of this year than the average for the same period throughout the decade.

Most U.S. construction takes place in counties with millennial concentrations, but the rate that new homes are built in these regions is relatively slower than it is elsewhere.

Australia's property frenzy is back in full swing, with home prices surging the most in 16 years in November.

October's deceleration in housing values could be followed by acceleration in 2020, but a growing subset of millennials nevertheless plan to become homeowners in the new year, according to CoreLogic.

While the median price of sold homes increased again this year, the number of sales to date in Central Massachusetts is so far below the rate from last year.