The pace of growth in home improvement spending could soon slow to a crawl. That’s according to a new estimate by the Remodeling Futures Program at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, which projects that spending on remodeling will

The only thing you can’t buy through Amazon is a house—right? No longer, apparently. Amazon and Realogy have partnered to offer a new service called TurnKey, which will match homebuyers with agents and offer users up to $5,000 in

The national existing-home market nearly gave up the ground won in May with a less-than-stellar showing for June sales, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales of existing homes in June came in 1.7 percent below the previous

Millennial homebuyers are a critical demographic for the housing market: They are now the largest generational cohort in the U.S. with a large share of them now of prime homebuying age. Millennials are currently in an age range in

Many U.S. military veterans are learning the hard way that legal cannabis and federal bureaucracy often don’t mix well. Among them is a 35-year-old disabled Army veteran from Revere, Massachusetts, whose VA loan application was rejected. The reason involved

As of this month, the U.S. has seen 121 straight months of economic expansion since the Great Recession in June 2009, the longest-recorded period of economic growth to date. Housing has comprised 15 percent of the nation’s economic output

Housing starts around the country were sluggish in June, with single-family starts registering below year-ago numbers for a fifth consecutive month. In all, housing starts were down 0.9 percent from the previous June, and were on pace for a

U.S. home sales to foreign buyers declined in the last year compared to the prior period, but still generated nearly $78 billion in total purchase volume between April 2018 and March 2019, according to the National Association of Realtors.

It’s often said by economists that housing costs have risen faster than wages in recent decades, but just how wide is the gulf between income growth and gains in property values? We now have a better sense of that,

Every Tuesday throughout the summer, Plainfield’s main drag turns into a family friendly spectacle of classic cars, music and food as the local chamber of commerce closes down the streets for Cruise Night. To Mike Prodehl, president and CEO

New data from realtor.com shows that while 42 percent of home shoppers this past spring were first-time buyers, the group, consisting mostly of millennials, had trouble finding homes due to budget constraints — a higher proportion than just two

Of the dozens of candidates currently in the running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2020, several frontrunners have made housing and real estate central pieces of their platforms. Here’s where the current frontrunners in the Democratic

On the same day, Compass settled a lawsuit against one titan of the real estate industry while finding itself at the center of a new, explosive complaint from another competitor. In a summons filed in the Supreme Court of

Just when many housing markets were seeing some relief in their scant inventory of for-sale housing, there are now fresh signs afoot that supply levels may return to a trend of tightening.  A new report on the housing market from

July marked the second consecutive month of tightening margins between owners’ estimates of home values and the professional opinions of appraisers, according to Quicken Loans’ National Home Price Perception Index. Appraised values were only 0.71 percent lower nationwide than

  Loan delinquency rates hit their lowest level in 20 years this past April, according to a new report from real estate data firm CoreLogic, showing that American homeowners continue to thrive about a decade after the housing market’s