mortgages

“It was so great to pay off a mortgage. It was like, kind of, phony money paying for real money,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said.

While getting a mortgage in retirement can be tricky, there are alternatives to traditional financing or other strategies that may help you qualify.

One year after home construction ground to a screeching halt, due to the Covid pandemic, builders are more than bullish yet again.

It was a mixed week for mortgage rates, which started high and then fell slightly, but the damage was done early.

Google reported last week that the search “When is the housing market going to crash?” had spiked 2,450% in the past month.

Rather than downsizing, retirees are starting to upsize, moving to bigger homes in their golden years. They’re doing it for all sorts of reasons.

Competition is tough for the limited supply of homes on the market. Here’s how to make sure you are positioned to buy a home without busting your budget.

“All the indicators that we see say that this housing market … [continues] to be hot, and there are a lot of reasons for that,” Zillow’s Susan Daimler said.

The stressful and sedentary nature of life during the coronavirus pandemic caused some to fall out of fitness routines and gain weight.

Heavy competition for homes has sidelined some first-time buyers, especially in major markets, so here are the best places for home shopping.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing a 60-day delay to two debt-collection rules set to take effect in November.

Mortgage rates moved higher again last week, causing homeowners and potential homebuyers to pull back on borrowing.

The CFPB expects mortgage servicers to offer homeowners options before foreclosing on them. Here’s what it means for you.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule Monday that would prevent mortgage servicers from filing a foreclosure until after Dec. 31, 2021.

Selling a home has never been easier, and while that may sound like great news for real estate agents, there is a problem: They are desperate for listings.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is looking to give homeowners in Covid-19 forbearance programs a reprieve from foreclosure proceedings until 2022.

Higher mortgage rates are hitting the refinance market hard, and they are starting to take their toll on homebuyers.

With housing prices on the rise, here’s a look at country’s most and least affordable cities to buy a home.

The U.S. housing market is suffering from its lowest supply in history, and that is taking an increasingly hard toll on sales.

Home price gains are accelerating at an alarming pace, a sharp, pandemic-induced inflation that some claim is not getting enough attention from the Fed.