WASHINGTON — U.S. sales of existing homes increased 1.1 percent on a monthly basis in March, which suggests that buyers are undeterred by the dwindling number of properties available on the market. The National Association of Realtors said Monday that ...

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Despite concerns April 2015’s riots would damage Baltimore’s housing market for the foreseeable future, recent numbers suggest that’s not happening. Live Baltimore, an organization that promotes living in the city, using data from Multiple Listing Service, has found sales in ...

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An analysis of March’s housing data for the Baltimore metro area shows the market continuing to improve. ShowingTime RealEstate Business Intelligence found the median home sales price was up 3.2 percent from last year; sales in March were up 11.2 ...

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The McMansion is making a comeback. At least that’s what CityLab found after drilling down into recently released Census data. Following the 2008 financial crisis the average size of a home in the U.S. started to tumble. But the website ...

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Some 13 percent of parents with children between the ages of 20 to 38 helped their child buy a home in the last five years, according to a survey.

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In honor of the Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for Sunday, multiple listing service, MRIS, has released a list of 10 homes in the Baltimore metro area with home theaters.

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Only 20 percent of mediation requests have resulted in some form of resolution.

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The optimism comes despite the average listing price for a home in the Baltimore metro area falling by 8.1 percent.

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The annual median sales price of a home in the Baltimore metro area fell .2 percent from 2013.

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Over the past couple of columns, we’ve been reviewing the impact of rising mortgage rates, as well as the impetus for those rate increases. We recently explained how the Federal Reserve, led by Chairman Ben Bernanke, triggered a jump in mortgage rates by suggesting that the Feds might begin to tighten up on their easy money policies.

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