Housing markets

Home sales in Ventura County and throughout Southern California fell sharply from June to July, according to a report released by CoreLogic.

The Seattle-area home market keeps picking up steam, with prices rising faster than anywhere else in the country for the 10th straight month.

As Downtown Boise's popularity as a residential neighborhood grows, housing prices are climbing beyond the affordable range for many people who want to live there.

Steady growth in home prices in 20 U.S. cities in June reflects a limited number of available houses for sale, according to S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller data.

From San Francisco to Jackson, Miss., here's a look at the 12 cities where home sales are expected to be the weakest during the third quarter of 2017.

If mortgage rates rise slowly as the economy continues to grow, the impact from the Fed’s unwind on housing likely will result in a decline in refinancing activity.

U.S. home prices reached a new record high in June, with values increasing 5.5% since the beginning of the year, according to Black Knight Financial Services.

Homeowners are eager to hold onto the ultra-low mortgage interest rates they were able to get after the crash, and they are leery about taking a chance on a move.

Signs are mounting that rising home values are starting to close the door for more Americans, threatening to temper the momentum in residential real estate.

July home sales in the Chicago area fell 4.9% from the previous year, continuing a trend of weaker sales that began in the spring.

After months of increasing sales and declining inventory, Rhode Island's housing market experienced a 4% sales dip in July, but strong demand pushed the median house price up by nearly 3%, to $270,000.

An unexpected decline in sales of previously owned homes last month to the lowest level since August 2016 indicates rising prices and lean inventories are impeding faster growth in the housing market.

With inventory still low, home prices continued to rise in the second quarter of 2017.

Buying into the American dream of homeownership is getting more costly in Chattanooga.

A decline in purchases of new homes in July may be a sign the industry took a breather following an even stronger run of sales than previously reported.

Sales slipped but prices rose in July as a short supply of homes for sale put pressure on Wisconsin's housing market.

The median price for a single-family home in Marin County, Calif., is more than $1.3 million and at that price only 17% of Marin households can afford to buy.

Home prices increased 6.6% in the second quarter from a year earlier as buyers competed for a shrinking supply of listings.

Cash deals are by no means dead, but they aren't dominating the South Florida housing market the way they once did.

Though potential homeownership demand declined moderately between 2015 and 2016, the underlying fundamentals for demand remained positive.