Housing starts in Austin, Texas were up 7 percent annually in the first quarter of 2019, and grew 22 percent from Q4 2018, per Metrostudy data.

Home prices in the Bay Area posted an annual decline for the first time in seven years, per CoreLogic's most recent data. The median price in March fell 0.1 percent to $830,000.

Cooling home prices may be the calm before the "wave" of young and first-time homebuyers that is about to hit the housing market, according to a new study.

A new ranking from SmartAsset analyzes U.S. cities based on employment, housing costs, education, and child care metrics. Most of the top-rated cities are in the Midwest.

Economists' expectations for the real estate market in 2019 and 2020 are "flat to up," and predict that 2021 will have slower growth and returns.

Most Millennials are funding their down payment by saving up money from their paychecks. The next largest share, 25 percent, are working a second job to save for their home's purchase.

For the first time since 2012, the median home price in Southern California posted an annual decline in March 2019, ticking down 0.1 percent, per CoreLogic data. 

The first estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the first quarter of 2019 shows that housing's share continues to trend downward, hampered by the affordability crisis.

California's affordability crisis has market economists pushing for more homes to be built as a solution, but many residents and local advocates worry that new market-rate structures will "supercharge" gentrification.