Housing markets

Texas is receiving $58 million from the Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery program that HUD administers.

Home sale prices in Western New York hit new peaks over the summer, as the region's housing market continued to churn past historic records.

Nearly half of all Memphis renters are "cost burdened,'' meaning they spend more than 35% of their household income on housing.

For the second year in a row, a North Texas city is being honored as the country's hottest housing market.

In a moment of rare unity, the Independent Community Bankers of America and National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions sent a joint letter to FHFA arguing to stop the GSEs' profit sweep.

Soot and ash are still settling over the Sonoma County, Calif., housing market, but real estate brokers and lenders contend the fiery destruction of a few thousand properties here will make it harder for both buyers and renters to find new homes.

A shortage of entry-level houses is putting a chill on the housing market in the Twin Cities.

Maui condominium sales and prices surged in September as home buyers pursued more affordable housing options.

The destruction of scores of houses and apartments in the North Bay fires virtually guarantees that the affordable housing crisis in Marin County, Calif., is about to get even worse.

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma affected new-home sales in Texas and Florida, resulting in a 7.5% year-over-year decline in mortgage applications to purchase these properties in September.

California faces a different set of housing challenges from other U.S. areas that are reeling from recent natural disasters.

While the DFW home market is still good or even great compared to a lot of places around the nation, things have definitely cooled a bit from the last few years.

For buyers now house hunting in metro Toledo, Ohio, a word to the wise: Think very carefully about the offer you submit to a seller.

It's a renter's market in New York, and after a year of being bombarded with landlord offers of gift cards and free months, apartment seekers are getting bored with all the perks.

Houston-area home sales bounced back in September after a double-digit decline in storm-battered August, when Hurricane Harvey flooding forced real estate offices to close and open houses to cancel.

While the scale of destruction and suffering caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is staggering, history suggests the local economy and housing markets in the affected areas will bounce back relatively quickly.

For families with household incomes below $50,000, the improving housing market in 2016 meant rising prices, and fewer homes and apartments they can afford to rent or buy, according to a report from HousingWorks RI.

Overall housing confidence rose in September, with renters becoming particularly optimistic, according to Fannie Mae.

Both home sales and prices in North Texas were higher in September than a year ago. But the rate of increase is slowing, which analysts say is good for the market.

As a year of record-breaking home-price increases continues across the Seattle area, millennials and other first-time buyers are coming to grips with the reality that they simply can't save up quickly enough to match the rise in home costs.