Housing markets

So long as the current monetary regime survives, homeowners — present and potential — can expect higher average prices interspersed with wild rides up and down.

The numbers tantalize leery minds: Housing prices, population growth and job creation in Southern Nevada all rebounded from the Great Recession over the past few years.

Home prices are up strongly both year-over-year and month-over-month, and nearly half of the nation's largest 50 markets are overvalued, according to CoreLogic.

Here's a look at the 12 housing markets with the largest percentages of mortgages over $500,000 — the new threshold House Republicans have proposed for the mortgage interest deduction in their tax plan.

More FHA homeowners than expected are refinancing out of the program and into conventional mortgages, despite an increase in mortgage rates over the past year.

Oahu's housing market stayed on track to set a sixth consecutive price record as the latest tally of home sales showed slight gains for prices in October.

An emerging group of local entrepreneurs is taking up arms against the sky-high cost of living in the Bay Area, hoping to end once and for all the housing crisis crippling the region.

Despite continued growth in national home prices, housing remains more affordable today than long-term benchmarks, according to Black Knight.

With the end of the summer home buying season, consumers were less optimistic that it was a good time to purchase or sell a home in October.

As employment and home prices reach and surpass previous levels of normal economic and housing activity, building permits continued holding markets back from hitting historic norms during the third quarter, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

Central Texas new-home construction surged to an 11-year high in the third quarter, the latest numbers show.

Pricey U.S. housing markets, from the New York suburbs to California's coastal cities, could take a direct hit under the tax-reform bill released by House Republicans.

A House Republican tax proposal that infuriated housing groups and sent homebuilder stocks sliding would only have a modest impact on the market for new homes and could end up being a net positive for the industry, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysts.

Denver's housing market continued to struggle with a frighteningly low number of homes and condos available for sale in October, which helped push up prices and cut into the pace of sales.

Seattle is now a full year into its reign as the hottest housing market in the country, an unusually long surge that doesn't look likely to end anytime soon.

San Diego had the third highest annual home price increase in the nation in August, a distinction not reached since 2014.

The majority of out-of-state U.S. home buyers are looking to move south, according to LendingTree.

Just 0.69% of residential properties in Colorado have no one living in them. That blows away the national rate of 1.58%.

Home-price gains in 20 U.S. cities accelerated in August amid tight inventories and steady economic growth.

U.S. home prices hit another new peak in August after just reaching a new high the previous month, according to Black Knight.