Inventory is down and prices are up, yet real estate firms are confident in their ability to be profitable over the next year.

Representatives from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau briefed attendees of the Five Star Conference and Expo on the recent updates to the Bureau's updated mortgage servicing rules.

While still not at its full potential, the existing-home sales market is getting closer. What factors are behind the improvements?

Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John Stumpf sat before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday and profusely apologized for the controversy that has rocked all sectors of the financial industry in the last two weeks.

Single-family housing starts reversed course in August after several months of gains. Why are market participants still optimistic about single-family housing?

While recent analysis indicates that newly-built rental housing units span the least number of square feet since the crash, research shows that newly-constructed single-family homes are going in the opposite direction.

Builder confidence has been up and down all year, but experienced a surge in September.

Home prices have reached or exceeded their pre-crisis levels in many markets. Does this mean another housing bubble is on the way?

Many markets across the United States are experiencing single-family housing inventory shortages exasperated by low-home building activity, according to one analysis. Here are the markets with the largest deficiencies.

Fannie Mae is predicting economic growth to accelerate substantially in the second half. What will be the drivers of the growth, and how does housing figure in?