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On the surface, a glimmer of confidence is returning to the battered U.S. housing market, after more than three years of gut-wrenching defaults, price slumps and foreclosures says Reuters. But investors and homeowners in California, the most...

 Housing starts declined last month from where they were in June but are expected to rise later this year, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday. Housing starts fell to 132,100 units in July from 137,800 units in June, on a...

Just as federal officials seek to wind down many bailout programs, the Obama administration announced Monday yet another initiative to prop up the housing market according to CNNMoney.com Administration officials unveiled a plan to aid state...

The New Housing Price Index rose 0.4 per cent for the third straight month in January says The Canadian Press. Statistics Canada reports St. John's, N.L., led the way at 1.7 per cent growth, followed by Winnipeg (0.7), and Toronto and Oshawa...

 Google is partnering with U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation (USBCDC), a division of U.S. Bank; to create an $86 million Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) fund. According to a release issued today, the funding will be used...

Housing construction fell in February as winter blizzards held down activity in the Northeast and South. The decline highlighted the challenges facing builders as they struggle to emerge from the worst housing slump in decades says AP. The...

A new report says urban land-use policies are making homes almost unaffordable in markets around the world, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal says AP.   The Demographia International report released Monday looked at 272...

Canada sees no immediate need to put the brakes on a heated housing market by toughening lending rules, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday as fears rose that a housing bubble may be forming says AP. Flaherty did say, however, that he...