Housing markets

Sales trends for new homes are on the upswing, another reason mortgage lenders need to keep an eye on this segment, the Mortgage Bankers Association found.

While raising concern, foreclosures were returning to normal historical trends, with timelines also shortening in the first half of 2026, Attom said.

Mid-Atlantic home sales climbed in June as inventory grew, even with mortgage rates near 6.5%. High-income and repeat buyers led the gains, Bright MLS found.

HUD must complete 124 actions to implement the new housing law, with roughly half due within a year. Here's what's changing for lenders and borrowers.

The National Association of Home Builders Remodeling Market Index for the second quarter posted a reading of 61, a one-point decline from the first quarter.

Realtor.com's latest forecast projects prices will grow 1.2% in 2026, lower than its original estimate of 2.2% and well below the current pace of inflation.

Contract closings fell 2.4% to an annualized rate of 4.09 million last month, data released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors show.

On Wednesday, Douglas Elliman announced a companywide AI overhaul, saying it will launch a new business, Elius, that aims to turn decades of proprietary real estate data into AI-powered products and market intelligence the company will sell to external customers.

Gen Z, whose oldest members turned just 29, represented nearly a third of all first-time home buyer loans, according to ICE's latest Mortgage Monitor report.

Three Western states rank most unaffordable compared to income, while those in Midwest and Southern states have more leeway in their budgets for homeownership.

Private residential construction spending rose 0.3% from April and 1.8% from a year ago to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $930.2 billion in May.

President Donald Trump said a bipartisan housing bill he has refused to sign was "fine," seeming to suggest it could become law even as he has withheld his signature in a bid to secure a voter identification law he sees as a bigger priority.

The S&P Cotality Case-Shiller home price index rose 0.8% year over year in April, while U.S. Federal Housing's index climbed 2%. Both indexes declined monthly.

While the nationwide purchase average declined nearly 3% in 2025, these costs rose in 23 of 50 states and the District of Columbia, a study from LodeStar said.

The national delinquency rate rose 15 basis points to 3.5% last month due to a calendar anomaly, marking a 4.5% month-over-month incline and 9.4% annual change.

There's broad support for the effort to reduce costs and processes, but the Appraisal Institute warns about reducing property valuation quality control checks.

Delayed development pipelines and tradeoffs plague projects as builders look towards creative financing strategies to cope.

Purchases of new single-family homes decreased by 7.3% to an annual rate of 580,000 last month, according to government figures published Wednesday.

Low immigration and fertility rates paired with aging boomers could weaken the foundation of housing demand over the next decade, the MBA finds.

The proposal is $10 billion of general obligation bonds for affordable housing and $1.25 billion of revenue bonds for the state's veterans home loan program.