Financials

A homeowner in Illinois has filed suit against Zillow, claiming that the online realty giant’s controversial “Zestimate” tool repeatedly undervalued her home, creating a “…

New data from the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) suggests that mortgage refinance activity was as significant a contributor to the housing crisis as risky mortgage products.…

Those with an annual household income of $100,000 a year won’t make the top 20 percent of earners in the metro areas of San Francisco, Seattle, or Washington, D.C., according to an interactive tool from…

Final estimates of fourth-quarter 2016 gross domestic product (GDP) growth (revised up two-tenths of a percentage point to 2.1 percent), show that housing’s share of GDP was unchanged at 15.6 percent, according to…

Home prices in February increased 7.2 percent from a year ago to a median sale price of $260,900, making it the strongest February for price appreciation in three years. At the same time, there was 6.4 percent…

Nearly a decade ago, Cara Brookins, a mother and computer analyst in Little Rock, Ark., happened upon a house badly damaged by a tornado. After seeing the basic construction was simpler than she had thought…