CoreLogic's map of existing home and condo sales in San Diego County, Calif. show sales, median prices, and annual price change.

A new study ranks the best states for higher education, based on average net price, graduation rate, in-state attendance rate, student-faculty ratios, and 20-year return on investment. 

For homebuyers, the general budgeting rule of thumb is to spend less than 30 percent of their income on housing costs so as not to be cost-burdened.

A new study looks at metros where buyers have the most and least money left over after paying their h

Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis topped a recent ranking of metros with the highest homeownership rates for low-income households. 

In December 2018, total residential construction spending posted the first annual loss, 1.3 percent, since 2011. But, multifamily construction spending had a record high, 3.1 percent, to a $65.2 billion annual pace.

The latest data from CoreLogic suggests that home prices will be heating up again. In January, home value growth was the slowest in seven years, up 4.4 percent annually.

America's small towns offer greater affordability than big cities, with lower crime rates, and community connectedness. A new ranking shows the most affordable and most livable small towns for buyers. 

A new Bloomberg study of the most expensive commutes in the nation shows that residents of Charles County, Md., and Fauquier and Stafford Counties in Virginia had some of the highest commuting costs.

In 2004, African American homeownership peaked at nearly 50 percent. The rate declined every year since. In 2017, the rate was 43 percent, cancelling out all gains since the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.