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Home builders started fewer single-family homes in May than predicted, which is curious given the low U.S. supply of new and existing homes for sale.
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Interest rates on U.S. mortgages continued to surge last week, rising above four percent for the first time in a year and driving down demand from homeowners to refinance.
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CNBC's Diana Olick and Suzanne Mistretta, Fitch Ratings analyst, take a look at whether Wall Street is behind the recent rise in home prices.
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New York state plans to sue HSBC for allegedly ignoring a law designed to protect homeowners from being thrown into foreclosure without chance to renegotiate their mortgages.
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Reverse mortgages have been around awhile, but got more popular during the housing crash as seniors who lost retirement money needed cash. Now, many are backfiring.
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The comedian has listed his villa in St. Barts for $11.4 million, reports CNBC's Robert Frank. Martin paid about $9 million for the house.
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Home prices continue to rise well beyond expectations, taking their biggest jump in April since February of 2006, when housing was booming.
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Mortgage rates have jumped to their highest in a year, and house values are rising. Those who have waited to buy or refinance may find the time is right.
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US home prices soared 12.1 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest gain since February 2006, as more buyers competed for fewer homes.
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Large investment firms have spent billions over the last year buying homes in the U.S.'s most depressed markets, the NYT reports.
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Discussing what rising mortgage rates mean for the housing recovery, with Robert Wetenhall, RBC Capital Markets, and Don Peebles, The Peebles Corporation.
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Mid-America Apartment Communities is buying Colonial Properties Trust in an all-stock deal, expanding its presence in the South and Southwest portion of the U.S.
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A group of investors, including Chinese real estate tycoon Zhang Xin, paid about $1 billion for a New York office building in the latest sign of a U.S. commercial real estate market recovery.
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Mortgage rates have been bouncing around since the Fed left the door open to early cuts in asset purchases. Here's why you may want to refinance now.
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Prudential California Realty's Greg Bender offers insight on the real estate market in Los Angeles. This week's power house is listed for $1.6 million.
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CNBC's Diana Olick takes a look at why existing home sales are just "squeaking by." And how do homeowners become "zombified?"
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The housing market continues to squeak out gains, with signed contracts to buy existing homes up in April, the National Association of Realtors reported.
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CNBC's Diana Olick breaks down the better-than-expected numbers on housing. And, a look at the second estimate for first quarter GDP, with CNBC's Steve Liesman.
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David Henry, Kimco Realty president & CEO, takes a look at which area in the real estate market are booming and which sections are being left behind.
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Sales of bank-owned homes plunged to a five-year low, the latest evidence that foreclosure woes are easing as the U.S. housing market recovery gains momentum.
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Dissecting the day's major business news, with the "Fast Money" traders; and discussing the housing industry, with CNBC's Diana Olick. "We are not in a housing boom right now, we're in a housing recovery," she says.
Realty Check with Diana Olick
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More than a year after the nation’s five largest mortgage servicers signed a $26 billion legal settlement, those same servicers still need to do better, according to a new report.
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Builders started fewer single-family homes in May than predicted, which is curious given the low supply of homes.
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Use this interactive map to track the latest numbers in some of the largest housing markets across the country.
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