Mortgage rates fell to the lowest level in more than a year, easing affordability concerns for homebuyers.

The average for 30-year, fixed loans was 6.19%, down from 6.27% last week and the lowest since early October 2024, data from Freddie Mac show.

Falling rates have given house hunters more buying power, but demand has been constrained by ...Read more

The federal government controlling the vast majority of land in Nevada dates all the way back to the 1800s when the territory was first admitted to the United States, according to a former longtime employee.

When Nevada became a state in October 1864, state representatives and stakeholders were only eyeing the northern part of Nevada due to its...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It's Monday afternoon in Madison Heights, a stately Pasadena neighborhood where the seasonal decor is as tasteful and predictable as a Hallmark movie.

Suddenly, like a strange wind, a U-Haul truck quietly pulls in front of an elegant home. Within minutes, a crew of black-clad workers begin emptying the truck's contents, briskly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters could soon be asked to usher in a major overhaul of the state's landmark environmental law, a proposal aimed at expediting crucial infrastructure projects, including housing construction, by creating new deadlines for environmental oversight.

The California Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday introduced a ballot ...Read more

In the years since the Great Recession, apartment construction in the United States has boomed. And more of these new homes have been smaller units, with fewer bedrooms, including studio apartments.

A recent paper from the Institute for Family Studies, a nonprofit that focuses on strengthening marriage and family life, argues that developers ...Read more

A proposed mega-development in downtown Los Angeles, which would replace a cold storage facility with a $2-billion residential and commercial complex, cleared a major hurdle last week when the city Planning Commission backed it.

Commissioners unanimously recommended the construction of Fourth & Central in the Skid Row neighborhood.

The 7.6-...Read more

Oakland, California, officials have a new take on a controversial housing program that hasn’t always delivered the affordability it promised struggling renters.

Across California, cities have signed on to a financing plan in which market-rate apartment buildings are bought and supposedly re-rented at rates affordable to teachers, nurses, and...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Maryland Association of Realtors warned Monday that a prolonged government shutdown could have adverse effects on the state’s housing programs and housing market.

“Each day the shutdown continues, uncertainty grows for Maryland families trying to buy or sell a home,” association president Denise Lewis said in a ...Read more

Brittany Stampone is torn.

The Northeast Philly native likes supporting independently owned coffee shops, but she said she can seldom justify the prices.

“I really try to find something within my budget,” said Stampone, 35, who works in health insurance.

When visiting Wildwood last month for Irish Weekend, she said she couldn’t find a ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte are fueling a deeper selloff in already struggling homebuilder stocks.

A series of social media posts, from the US president over the weekend and then from the FHFA director and real estate scion Pulte on Wednesday, contributed to a four-day losing streak for an S&P ...Read more

Los Angeles developer Cliff Goldstein just completed a plush new apartment complex on the Westside, but that's the last one he's going to build for the foreseeable future.

Even though demand for housing in the region is red hot, many people who build apartments for a living have paused putting shovels in the ground because, they say, it's just ...Read more

American consumers are waiting for the Federal Reserve to cut rates so they can buy or sell their homes, but Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said Tuesday that the long-awaited mortgage rate drop might not materialize.

There’s only so much money to go around, Kashkari said, and the amount of cash flowing into AI — though it’s ...Read more

For almost as long as the artificial intelligence boom has been in full swing, there have been warnings of a speculative bubble that could rival the dot-com craze of the late 1990s that ended in a spectacular crash and a wave of bankruptcies.

Tech firms are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on advanced chips and data centers, not just ...Read more

This year, San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener passed a bill that will allow mid-rise housing to be built near transit stops, a win for the pro-housing lawmaker who’d seen two previous attempts collapse before even reaching the Senate floor, blocked by lawmakers concerned about state interference in local land-use decisions.

On multiple ...Read more

Home sales closings dropped in August and remain well below pre-pandemic levels as high prices and interest rates weighed on the market, according to an analysis this week by the Calculated Risk blog.

Home sales are on track for the worst year in decades, matching the 4 million annual sales in 1995, according to a separate realtor.com report ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego home prices were down annually for a second month as the region fell in a closely watched real estate index.

The San Diego metropolitan area’s home price decreased 0.66% annually in July, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Indices report released this week. Prices were down year-over-year by 0.61% the previous ...Read more