In recent months, home-price growth has decelerated, but America still faces a deep housing-affordability crisis. Most buyers ...

Rural America is being hit hard by the affordability crisis, harder than suburban and urban markets.New research from Redfin ...

The share of government-supported mortgages aimed at helping home buyers in rural areas rose slightly for the week ending May 24, even as other categories and overall applications dipped, according to ...

Rural areas of the U.S. that have long been viewed as a refuge for affordable homeownership are now grappling with rising prices, limited inventory and increasing competition — pressures once thought ...

Homebuyers need to earn an annual income of $74,508 to afford the median-priced home in rural U.S. counties. That's up 105.8% from before the pandemic, when rural buyers needed to earn $36,206, ...

Homes under $100K exist, but many buyers can’t get mortgages for them, leaving investors to snap up properties working ...

Eric Bivens was in the process of closing on a rural loan for a home in Owasso when he learned of the looming deadline, which he's afraid he won't be able to meet. As a first-time homebuyer, Bivens ...

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage rose this week to 6.24%, according to the latest Freddie Mac data released on ...

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. Off a two-lane stretch of U.S. Route 1 in rural Caribou, Maine, sits a white ranch-style house that’s been consumed ...

The financing offered by the rural development loan program is so attractive that it accounts for about half of all home loans in the River Parishes A number of suburban New Orleans communities may be ...

Amanda Burke will be based in the agency’s state office in Bangor. With more than 20 years of experience in real estate finance and mortgage lending, Burke leads a team of 13 Rural Development housing ...