Only a few months ago, most economists, mortgage lenders and others who closely track the mortgage market assumed interest rates would continue rising through 2019, driving up the cost of home purchases. But several weeks into the new year,

In a year defined by rising home prices, sellers fared well in 2018, according to a new report from Attom Data Solutions. Based on its analysis of public sales records across metro areas with at least 200,000 residents, the

The residential property market continues to look better for prospective buyers as the trend of falling prices extends into the new construction segment. In the fourth quarter of 2018, according to data from Zillow, more than a quarter of

The most recent existing home sales report from the National Association of Realtors found sales volumes decline on both a monthly and annual basis in the final weeks of 2018. December home closings touched their lowest annual rate since

At a key moment for the U.S. housing market, Redfin found more evidence that homebuyers are entering 2019 in perhaps the strongest position in years. The number of homes for sale in the nation’s largest markets grew 4.8 percent

Conditions continue to improve for homebuyers in many of the largest U.S. cities, according to recent data from S&P CoreLogic’s Case-Shiller National Home Price Index and Redfin. The latest reading of the closely watched Case-Shiller index found home price growth

The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that existing home sales in November were up 1.9 percent from the previous month. That makes November the second consecutive month of increasing home sales as prices continue to moderate and listings

Even though home sales declined 2 percent in November year-over-year, Houston’s 2018 residential real estate market will still go down in the books as a more productive one than 2017, according to the latest monthly report from the Houston

Assumptions about how millennials will spend their money as they progress through adulthood continue to be proven inaccurate, or at least misunderstood. This is particularly true in real estate, specifically the places where Americans now in their 20s and

Housing inventory is steadily recharging around the U.S., giving potential buyers more options. RE/MAX’s latest national housing report found October was the first month to show a year-over-year increase in inventory in nearly 10 years. Compared to one year

As 2018 winds down, so too have several leading indicators of home sales activity: New and existing home sales, builder sentiment, price growth and more have taken a turn for the worse in the closing months of the year.

The latest report on pending home sales recorded in October, released today by the National Association of Realtors, showed more signs of a short-term slowdown. NAR’s pending home sales index declined by 2.6 percent last month compared to September,

The latest reading of the U.S. housing market — the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index for Sept. 2018 — showed yet another sign of sluggish price growth. S&P’s key 20-city composite index showed that home prices in the

There is a growing trend throughout several markets involving property listings that don’t appear on that market’s multiple listing system. The idea around private listings, or pocket listings, office exclusives or a number of other names, has been known

After six months of declines, existing home sales posted a month-to-month increase in October, according to the October report from the National Association of Realtors. Total existing home sales rose 1.4 percent from September to 5.22 million single-family homes,

The most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on home construction activity sent mixed signals for next year’s homebuilding outlook. While the number of housing starts grew 1.5 percent