While casual observers might have been expecting dismal numbers in the latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labors Statistics following expectedly soft figures in May’s report, Friday’s jobs report was actually pretty encouraging. The total nonfarm job count rose by 224,000 in June, and the unemployment rate of 3.7 percent represented almost no change from the previous month.

This summer, the mortgage industry has good news for veterans in high-cost real estate markets thanks to the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, recently signed into law. But the bill was nearly bad news for those interested in VA loans, as previous versions would have raised VA loan fees.

Zestimates have reportedly been upgraded to incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities that the company says will improve accuracy. But despite these touted improvements, the feature, which lets homeowners and prospective buyers see the estimated value of almost any residence, remains controversial.

The Counselors of Real Estate, an international organization for commercial real estate professionals, ranked what its membership body recently voted on as the current and emerging issues it expects to have the most significant impact on real estate.  Topping

The number of mortgage applications submitted during the week ending June 21 grew 1.3 percent, and rates on the standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage continued their downward slide.

Less than a week after the National Association of Realtors reported stronger than expected existing-home sales for the month of May, there’s more good news for the U.S. housing market. NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index for May came in

Trump seeks to prioritize affordable housing with an executive order, proposed mortgage reforms are already adding on to borrowing costs, new home sales tick lower again and more in our weekly roundup of national real estate news.

The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University released its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report for 2019 and we were on hand to get the big picture on affordability, inventory pressures, predictions for the future and more from researchers and policy experts

In March, the luxury home market saw the largest drop in sales since 2010 with an 8.3 percent year-over-year decrease in closings, according to data gathered by Realtor.com. There were just 8,343 sales in excess of $1 million across

By the end of 2018, it was easy to see storms on the horizon in terms of the domestic and global economic outlook, with price growth beginning to slow and construction activity continuing to underwhelm. At the midpoint of 2019, however, we’ve already seen several surprises in the housing market, many of them on the positive side.

Real estate news this week includes stories about investors growing their share of home sales, Fannie and Freddie’s support for pre-fab homes yielding mixed results, and low rates failing to be a panacea in the housing market.

The latest numbers demonstrate that consumers may have responded to the combination of continuing low interest rates and newly increased inventory sooner than some watchers of the market had expected.

An increasing number of Americans believe the situation is improving for both homebuyers and sellers, according to the latest survey from NAR.

The Federal Reserve announced it would not make changes to targets for its key interest rate, but in line with some projections, the Federal Open Market Committee made significant revisions to forecasts on future interest rate adjustments in response to new concerns that economic growth is slowing.

Single-family housing starts fell in the Northeast, Midwest and West, but rose in the South, where majority of house building takes place. Still, there’s a reason for optimism going forward.

This is the first quarter since Q3 2016 that more respondents saw a positive rather than negative outlook for profitability, and is the second-highest margin of optimism recorded in the survey’s six-year history.