In many markets, buying a home is more affordable than renting, but rising mortgage rates may reverse that in the coming year.

The home price growth the nation has experienced in the last four-plus years since prices bottomed out is expected to continue over the next 12 months, but the effect may be adverse for housing.

What drove new home sales to their second-highest annual pace in the last eight years, according to one analysis?

Home price acceleration is moving at its fastest clip in a decade, which is not necessarily a good thing, according to one analysis.

Sentiment is strong as 2016 winds down and 2017 is set to begin. Why is Fannie Mae predicting only moderate growth for housing and the economy?

Recent analysis indicates that first-time homebuyers may run into some affordability issues in 2017. Still, many markets are expected to be friendly to those who are just now entering the housing market.

The underlying issue in the 2016 U.S. housing market has been tight inventory in general. But it’s actually worse for starter home and trade-up inventory.

The latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices look impressive on the surface, surpassing peak 2006 numbers. But when inflation is factored in, nationally, prices still have a long way to go.

Despite economic growth and a national unemployment rate below 5 percent, the typical U.S. family still faces significant trouble buying a home.

Conventional wisdom has long suggested that renters rent because they can’t afford to buy homes. But one analysis has posed the question of whether renters are renting out of necessity or choice.