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While the national picture of high home prices and a tight supply may look bleak, certain local markets are still lucrative options.
Most of the drop stemmed from a continued reduction in refinance activity, but applications to purchase a home also fell.
Mortgage lender CMG Financial recently introduced a crowdfunding platform for prospective homeowners.
WASHINGTON, Oct 4- The U.S. regulator for mortgage servicers on Wednesday loosened the timing requirements for communicating with struggling borrowers under new rules that take effect later this month to help prevent wrongful home foreclosures. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said last year it would begin requiring servicers, the conduits for...
Mortgage application volume slipped 0.4 percent last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association says.
The gains in home prices are getting bigger again, and that has more potential buyers looking for ways to afford the monthly payment.
As older Americans decide to downsize, they may be faced with the decision of whether to rent a new home or buy one.
Trump's chief economic advisor has ignited a debate about the economic effect of the mortgage interest deduction on home buying.
Associations representing home builders and realtors had near-opposite takes on the newly unveiled tax plan.
In at least seven major cities, home prices are rising too far and too fast, UBS says.
A monthly index on pending home sales has fallen five out of the past six months, stoking fears of long-term decline.
Mortgage application volume fell 0.5 percent last week from the previous week.
The nation's housing market is not healthy; in fact, it is increasingly mismatched with today's buyers.
There is so much demand for housing and so few homes for sale, that prices have nowhere to go but up — unless they get so high that no one wants to buy.
Home prices and housing demand are both soaring, and real estate agents are desperate to find more homes to list.
Two institutional landlords dealt with hundreds of damaged homes and displaced tenants after Hurricane Harvey.
Applications to refinance a home loan and purchase a home fall sharply.
Camden Property Trust has seen a "total transformation" of its business since Hurricane Harvey hit Texas, its CEO told CNBC on Tuesday.
One contractor laments that as their phone keeps ringing, "You have to tell them it will likely be a couple years."
There was already a labor shortage in the construction industry, and two severely damaging hurricanes only made matters worse.
