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As the Baby Boomer generation grows older and enter those "empty-nester" years, many are swapping out their long-tome homes to enter the rental market.

Trulia gave investors a leg up on where to look for properties with its latest Live Well maps, which highlight America’s best neighborhoods for those looking to stay active and healthy. The index measures such aspects as the percentage of quiet streets and recreational amenities.

What homeowners think their houses are worth and what they’re actually worth are slightly off nationally, and the gap between owner estimates and real appraisals widened in February for first time in six months.

Despite popular beliefs, the millennial generation will eventually want to transition from their fast-paced, renter lifestyle into a single-family home with a mortgage, but the real surprise is where these young homebuyers are choosing to settle down.

Interest rates for mortgage loans, which continue to remain at historic lows, saw another increase for the second time this year. Will mortgage rates continue their upward path?

Given that most of the news about the homebuying market these past few years has focused on violate financial markets, up and down home sales, and fluctuating interest rates, it may seem easy to overlook a basic question—is anyone diving into the housing market for a second time and what does that mean for the economy?

There are new segments of the population emerging that include millennials, minorities, immigrants, and rural dwellers, and the typical FICO score evaluation just won't cut it for lenders.

Negative equity is down to 13.1 percent nationwide, but is still a nagging problem choking real growth and limiting new inventory, according to a new report by Zillow.

Lenders One Interim CEO Dan Goldman sat down with MReport to explain why lenders are so optimistic in the housing market today and what they can do to reach untapped borrowers and grow their origination business.

Stock market and Treasury yield volatility continued last week and so did the downward trend of mortgage rates, which opened up more opportunities for refinancing, but mortgage applicants did not take advantage of theses savings.