A new law requires 10-year batteries in smoke alarms for all new and existing Florida homes.

First-time borroweres could save as much as $900 per year with the reduction in mortgage insurance fees recently announced by President Barack Obama.

Austin’s housing market continues down its path to recovery as starts, inventory, and sales continue to rise, according to the Austin Business Journal.

At a time when it seems to some that the American Dream may be long gone, many foreign-born residents continue seeing homeownership as a pathway to achieving that goal.

The Department of Energy funded a paper that is avialable for comments from the public.

The Federal Housing Administration recently announced cuts to insurance premiums buyers pay for their mortgages; MarketWatch takes a look at how this will affect the housing industry.

Although the number of flips declined last year, the average gross profit for these projects is up.

States where oil production powers the local economy such as Texas and Oklahoma have experienced a gain in home prices, according to Trulia.

The Naitonal Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is examining a new way that woudl allow home appliances to communicate with the power grid using an Internet connection.

The 2015 Consumer Electronics Show highlighted many of the latest products to hit the market, but all eyes were on Samsung Electronics when it announced that 90 percent of the devices it creates will be Internet-enabled by 2017, Bloomberg reported.