Housing markets

Timid sellers are making for a tepid spring for Twin Cities home sales.

Senate Democrats accused Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and his agency of failing to enforce fair housing laws.

As tight housing inventory continues challenging prospective borrowers, Newfi Lending has launched a new portfolio lending platform in an effort to make homeownership more attainable.

March 20--Metro Atlanta home prices are up 9.8 percent from a year ago, while the supply of homes for sale has continued to shrink, according to a report from Re/Max.

First-time home buyers won't catch a break from the Dallas-area's hot home market this spring.

As policymakers take another crack at housing finance reform, federal leaders and the housing lobby are once again perpetuating the false notion that ending government guarantees would cause the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage to vanish.

Housing inventory hit positive territory for the first time since 2015, but starter home volume is at a low for recent years, according to Trulia.

Sales of previously owned homes rose more than expected in the first gain in three months, indicating that job gains and tax cuts are supporting demand despite low supply.

Thanks to eager homebuyers, the Albuquerque metro housing market continued an upward trend last month, despite a short supply of single-family homes for sale.

Home sales took off in the Portland area last month, perhaps as buyers tried to get ahead of rising mortgage rates.

Developers built nearly 24,000 apartments in the Twin Cities since 2010 in what's been seen as a booming market. But the action this year and next will blow all that away.

The homeownership rate in the Buffalo Niagara region dropped to its second-lowest level in 25 years in 2017, according to new data released by the Census Bureau.

Close to a third of all home purchases were made by millennials over the past year, but tight inventory and affordability issues prevented them from reaching their buying potential, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Confidence among U.S. homebuilders slipped to a four-month low in March while remaining above historical averages, indicating developers expect demand to withstand rising mortgage rates.

Home equity levels increased year-to-year in the fourth quarter of 2017 following a larger-than-expected surge in home prices during the past year.

With demand for central Ohio homes at record highs, and the number of homes on the market at record lows, the stars should be perfectly aligned for central Ohio homebuilders.

More signs have that last year's market strength is kicking off a repeat in 2018 home prices.

There's too much momentum and too little debt for rising interest rates to derail the U.S. economic expansion or drive up the cost of home ownership.

Home sale volume often plummets on Maui in January or February, but this year it didn't, and the result was what looked like a spike in the number of single-family houses sold last month.

Santa Cruz County is among the counties in the nation hardest hit by the tax law change approved in December to limit mortgage interest deductions to the $750,000 in home loans, down from $1 million.