After posting a surprisingly steep year-over-year decline in the number of closed transactions in June, single-family home sales rose again last month.

So far, recent declines in mortgage rates have mainly resulted in more refinancing activity — not in a surge in home sales.

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index for August showed Americans shared broadly strong views of the overall economy and their own financial health near the end of the summer.

Economists were expecting new-home sales to finish stronger in July, aided by low mortgage rates that act as an incentive for buyers.

The homebuilder community has regularly offered a succinct answer to the reason for its industry’s sluggishness, generally calling out labor, lumber, laws and land as pain points. But some researchers are poking holes in their assertions of late.

Sales of existing homes in July logged their first year-over-year gain in 16 months.

Despite financial issues and a lack of knowledge, 89 percent of millennials still said they hoped to become a homeowner at some point.

Pending home sales posted their 12 consecutive month of gains across Massachusetts in July.

U.S. homebuilders appear optimistic that low mortgage rates can turn the tide in favor of stronger sales in the months ahead.

Keller Offers will partner with established iBuyer Offerpad to offer customers a hybrid of the services the two companies provide.

Perhaps contrary to popular belief, the unique homes built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright tend to remain available on the market for several years at a time.

We asked local agents whether the recent string of subway failures could change people’s housing decisions in the short- or long-term.

Two new policies in the works have the potential to reshape the way homebuyers access credit through programs backed by the U.S. government.

A constellation of factors point to a possible recession in the coming months or years, but the housing market will be neither the cause of it, nor the hardest-hit part of the economy.

Yet another derailed train, this time on the Green Line, snarled commutes once again August 7 and kicked of a string of bad headlines for Boston transit.

Homebuyers and sellers with children under 18 years old prioritize prompt responses and timely transactions when working with real estate agents, often even more so than clients without kids.