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Mortgage interest rates have set record lows more than a dozen times this year, and last week there was yet another. That caused mortgage applications to rise.

Homeowners now have unprecedented potential to save on their monthly payments through a mortgage refinance.

A report by the Urban Institute estimates 3.4 millennials would be homeowners had the rate of homeownership kept up with previous generations. 

Covid-induced demand from homebuyers over the summer caused an exceptionally strong spike in home prices

Before committing to buy a home, there are certain key things to make sure you’ve done. Here are six of them, according to real estate experts.

Unemployment benefits will terminate for millions of workers at the end of the year, just as rent and student loan protections lapse, absent federal extensions.

Sales of existing homes in October soared well past expectations, rising 4.3% compared with September and 26.6% annually.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has perpetuated racial segregation in Connecticut’s capital by failing to help poor Black and Hispanic families living in dilapidated, federally subsidized housing move to better neighborhoods in the city and suburbs, residents allege in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The complaint was filed in federal court by 10 former residents of three...

November is not historically a strong season for homebuying, but this one, like the rest of 2020, isn’t following any rules.

In November, builder confidence in the construction market for single-family homes soared to its third record high in as many months.

Miller Tabak’s Matt Maley says housing stocks look sound fundamentally but he warns of weaknesses starting to form.

Rent prices continued to plunge across the U.S. this past month, with San Francisco leading the decline, according to data from Zumper, a real-estate startup.  The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco dropped more than 20% from a year ago, to $2,830, according to the report. That’s the largest decline the company has recorded. Month-to-month, the price...

A plan to protect housing options for low-income residents living near the planned Obama Presidential Center was approved Wednesday by the Chicago City Council. The move follows years of back and forth between the city and activists who’ve feared development around the $500 million presidential center would displace residents in the largely Black lakefront neighborhood of Woodlawn. Under the ordinance, Chicago...

In Taos, New Mexico, a team is building a model of self-sustainable, off-the-grid living called Earthships. The concept was pioneered by Michael Reynolds 50 years ago and has been evolving ever since. He said the structures meet the six key human needs by providing shelter, water, food, energy, sewage treatment and garbage management.

If you’ve been longing for a closer look at shiplap walls and clawfoot tubs ever since Chip and Joanna Gaines stepped away from their HGTV hit, “Fixer Upper,” in 2018, we’ve got good news for you. A new promo, which first aired on TODAY Tuesday morning, reveals that the home improvement superstars are bringing “Fixer Upper” back to TV. In a two-minute...

The coronavirus pandemic is entering a new month, meaning Americans struggling amid the economic fallout once again have to worry about paying their rent

On Monday, July 27, two days after the eviction moratorium in Maryland expired, Timothy Young, his wife, Tammy, and their two children, Hermione, 8, and Negan, 2, scrambled to move out of their duplex. They’d received their notice to vacate.  Young estimates that he’s applied to more than 400 jobs over the last few months, and nothing has panned out....

The Trump administration said Thursday that it is revoking an Obama-era housing regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs, a move that fair housing advocates have decried as an election year stunt designed to manipulate the fears of white voters

If the outbreak roars back in New York City, Anil and Joyce Lilly will not be sheltering again in their Bronx apartment. They just bought a house an hour north in the Hudson Valley. “We need more elbow room,” said Joyce Lilly, explaining their move to Washingtonville, New York. “Because we were locked into the apartment for three months, a…

In our latest installment of “Purpose Over Profit,” LX News talked to Laura Brady, the founder and CEO of Concierge Auctions, a high-end real estate auction firm that is building a home for a family in need for every home it sells. Laura Brady said the company has funded the construction of more than 200 homes in El Salvador and...