Housing markets

We're counting down this year's 400 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

As the state's costliest housing markets and high rents threaten to force all but the highest-paid workers into ever-longer commutes, California lawmakers have introduced a bill to help more teachers, firefighters and other middle-income workers live close to their jobs.

Williston, N.D., is in the midst of a single-family housing shortage that promises only to get worse as oil and gas activity picks up for the season.

Housing sentiment remained volatile in March as consumers reporting that now is a good time to buy a home rose from the previous month, according to Fannie Mae.

We're counting down this year's 400 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the cut in the latest segment of the list!

Home prices in the Tampa Bay area continue to climb, and once again the price jumps were due to the scant supply of moderately priced homes.

Spring has sprung and weather temps should be going up, but Chicago rent prices are going down — that's according to Zumper, an apartment listing platform.

New residents to the Bay Area are earning far more than the people they're chasing out, a new report says, pushing up home prices and highlighting the gap between owners and renters in Silicon Valley.

The median sales price of a single-family home in Santa Fe, N.M., rose nearly 12% in the first quarter over the same period last year.

We're counting down this year's 400 Top Producers. Check out which loan officers made the first segment of the list!

An improved Colorado Springs economy helped propel buyer demand for new homes during the first quarter.

Louise Juracek, a broker associate at Coldwell Banker Preferred Realtors in Bakersfield, Calif., sells 130 to 150 houses a year.

Purchase loans made to millennial mortgage borrowers rose month-over-month in February despite interest rates increasing at the start of the year, according to Ellie Mae.

Mortgage application activity decreased 3.3% from one week earlier as purchase and refinance volume fell prior to the start of the home buying season, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Single-family-home prices in metro Denver continued to perform gravity-defying feats of appreciation last month, as sellers as buyers alike raced to join the spring home-selling circus.

Home sales in Manhattan plunged by the most since the recession as buyers at all price levels drove hard bargains and were in no rush to close deals.

The new federal budget approved this month boosted tax credits for corporations that help finance low-cost housing but the move is unlikely to help a long-stalled 63-unit affordable housing project with a $5 million funding gap.

Home values grew in all 50 states in February, but their appreciation is expected to slow within the next year, according to CoreLogic.

The housing market in the Dayton, Ohio, area continued to improve in February, with increases in the median sale price and number of homes sold.

Mortgage borrowers collectively hold more equity in their homes than at any other time on record, but they've been slow to borrow against this newfound wealth, according to Black Knight.