Housing markets

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.

As Bay Area sales dwindled, in a reflection of the region's shrinking home supply, buyers continued to bid up the region's notoriously high prices.

A major mortgage insurance company has lowered the threat level for Dallas-Fort Worth's housing market.

Southern California's house hunters must move 23% faster this year to find a residence to buy.

A gauge of contract signings to purchase previously owned homes was unchanged in September at the lowest level since the start of 2016 as Hurricane Irma depressed sales in the Southeast and a limited number of listings restrained activity elsewhere.

Purchases of new homes unexpectedly surged in September to the highest level in a decade as activity accelerated in the South after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Home sales in greater Hartford rose for the fifth consecutive month, but prices fell the most of any month so far this year on year-over-year basis.

The 63,398 homes sold in the first nine months of this year in Wisconsin set a new record, but low inventory continues to vex buyers.

Strong growth in the sale of existing homes in Lake County in September was almost enough to pull the seven counties that make up the Greater Northwest Indiana Association of Realtors into positive territory for the month.

The CFPB's practice of "regulation by enforcement" forces mortgage companies to develop compliance standards based on the mistakes of their peers, rather than clear guidance from the enforcement agency, said David Motley, the new chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association.