Housing markets

Connecticut's real estate market was in flux for much of 2018, especially when compared to the other New England states, according to a new report.

Houston's housing market shattered records in 2018, despite lingering effects from Hurricane Harvey and concerns that began late in the year over rising interest rates.

Residential lender and Warburg Pincus portfolio company Newfi Lending is helping tackle upfront costs for homebuyers with the launch of its 2-1 Buydown Program.

North Texas homebuilders eased off construction in the fourth quarter as some buyers took a break from the housing market.

Stable home prices and fewer homes changing hands in the Las Vegas Valley caused housing values to plateau last month, according to the valley's leading real estate association.

First-time homebuyers earn $30,000 more than their peers who didn't buy a house, and nearly $12,000 more than the country's overall median household income, highlighting affordability issues in current housing conditions, according to Zillow.

What goes up must come down. At least that was true in 2018 for Oahu's home market, which ended the year with record annual median prices for single- family homes and condominiums but saw slowing sales in December and for the full year.

As buyers grow nervous and tired, home prices in Philadelphia are slowing.

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The government shutdown is not just affecting federal agency employees' ability to make their mortgage or rent payments, it could take them out of the home buying market, Zillow said.

Tampa Bay's housing market gained $22 billion in value last year but it's still worth less than it was at the peak of housing bubble in 2005-06.

During the Palm Beach County, Fla., real estate recovery, home prices moved in one direction — up, up and up some more.

Older millennials and younger Generation Xers still feel the aftershock of the housing crisis, as more would rather invest in the stock market than real estate, according to Redfin.

Millennials comprise the largest cohort of homebuyers as most have entered their prime purchasing years, and they just might shake up migration patterns in 2019, according to First American Financial Corp.

Builder Taylor Morrison Home Corp. has launched a program that lowers the rate on its lending subsidiary's mortgages for two years through a new buydown program.

Rising home prices along with a changing perception of the U.S. economy reduced consumer confidence in the housing market to the lowest point of 2018, according to Fannie Mae.

House prices in Los Angeles and Orange counties rose in November at the slowest rate since the last housing slump ended in 2012, according to a new housing report.

Median home prices in Santa Fe, N.M., soared to $412,000 in the fourth quarter of 2018, a 27% increase from a year earlier, according to the Santa Fe Association of Realtors.

Borrowers and financial institutions may be feeling the strain from reduced operations at the FHA and IRS, which has suspended the release of certain income documentation during the budget impasse.

Home price appreciation gained $1.9 trillion in 2018, as the national housing market continued recovering from the Great Recession, according to Zillow.