Real Estate

Housing affordability improved modestly during the fourth quarter of last year, helped by slightly lower interest rates and lower home prices. Overall, 62.8 percent of all new and existing homes that were sold during the three months of 2014 nationwide were affordable to families earning the U.S. median income of …

January was a slow month for California’s housing market. An estimated 25,325 new and resold houses were sold statewide last month, a 30.6 percent drop compared with December and a two percent decline year-over-year, according to CoreLogic DataQuick, which released its monthly state housing report Wednesday. Historically, last month was …

Nationally, home builders still like where the housing market is headed. Confidence among builders of single-family homes fell two points to 55 this month, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, which was released Tuesday. That number has remained essentially unchanged during the past eight …

Single-family home sales in Southern California dropped in January compared with the previous year, as the market continued its trend of year-over-year sales declines. A total of 13,560 homes were sold in the six-county region during the first month of the year, a drop of 6.3 percent from January 2014, …

Housing affordability in California was essentially unchanged during the fourth quarter of last year. Thirty one percent of all home buyers in the state could afford to buy a median-priced, single-family home during the last three months of 2014, up from 30 percent during the third quarter, according to data …

Foreclosures dropped 13.7 percent nationwide at the end of last year, the 34th consecutive month that that number has declined. An estimated 39,000 single-family homes nationwide were foreclosed on in December, down 46,000 from December 2013 and a 66 percent drop from September, 2010 when foreclosures were at their peak, …