The recent rise in mortgage rates has made buying a house a little more expensive: the increase in the 30-year fixed rate over the past month from 3.4 percent to 3.9 percent (Freddie Mac) raised the monthly payment on a $200,000 mortgage by $56, or 6 percent. However, because...

Would you rather have a newly-built home or a piece of local history? Across America today, you can find homes for sale that were built as long ago as the 19th century or as recently as yesterday. There's no mistaking a 1920s Dutch colonial, a 1970s A-frame, or a 2000s...

Spring house-hunting season is upon us. Home searches peak in March and April, and this year the search is especially frantic as inventory is near a 12-year low. Many homes don't stay on the market for long, so buyers will have to move fast -- especially in markets with...

Baseball's 2013 season begins Sunday night, when the Texas Rangers go to Houston to take on the Astros. Most other teams kick off the season on Monday. To mark the annual start of America's national pastime, we looked at home prices in the neighborhoods near major-league stadiums.

If you...

On St. Patrick's Day, everyone is Irish. But what about the rest of the year?

Twenty-two million Americans -- 7.2% of the population -- say their "primary ancestry" is Irish, according to the Census's American Community Survey. Another 13.5 million Americans claim at least some Irish ancestry, bringing...

A constant debate in California politics is whether jobs and people are leaving the state. This week, in fact, Texas Governor Rick Perry is in California, trying to lure businesses to his state. He won't have much luck because jobs rarely move: In a typical year, just 25,000 jobs...

The Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor are the earliest leading indicators of how asking prices and rents are trending nationally and locally. They adjust for the changing mix of listed homes and therefore show what's really happening to asking prices and rents. Because asking prices...

In Washington, D.C., women often complain about the lack of available men. On the other hand, San Jose has earned the moniker "Man Jose" for having too few available women for the men of Silicon Valley. But is it fact or fiction? In love, as with real estate, it's better...

As winter's end approaches, the housing market wakes up. All key measures of housing activity -- searches, prices, starts, sales, and inventories -- typically hit their annual lows in December or January. Each year, would-be buyers come out of hibernation first: search behavior starts to pick up in January,...

Each month, Trulia's Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to "normal." We summarize three key housing market indicators: construction starts (Census), existing home sales (NAR), and the delinquency-plus-foreclosure rate (LPS First Look). For each indicator, we compare this month's...

Now is the bargain real estate season: asking home prices typically hit their seasonal low point from November through January. This winter, however, markdowns are harder to find. Among all non-foreclosure homes for sale on Trulia, in early January, 33.6 percent of homes were priced lower than their...

On January 17, the Census reported that there were 708,000 new housing starts in 2012, a 28 percent increase over 2011 and the highest level since 2008. (Census also reported that the seasonally adjusted annualized rate for December was 954,000.) However, construction activity is still far...

Along with our take on what's in and what's out for housing in 2013, I've got my eye on 10 "healthy" housing markets with solid fundamentals. The healthy markets that made the list have strong job growth (Bureau of Labor Statistics), which bodes well for housing demand;...

It's been a long holiday season of sugared bacon and brown-butter cookies. Now begins the January push to lose weight -- the number one New Year's resolution. Weight loss isn't only about willpower. Your environment matters too: Cheap food, suburban sprawl, and long commutes all contribute to America's...

The Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor are the earliest leading indicators of how asking prices and rents are trending nationally and locally. They adjust for the changing mix of listed homes and therefore show what's really happening to asking prices and rents. Because asking prices lead...

One year ago, I wrote: "Even the best possible 2012 won't get us halfway back toward normal." That turns out to be true, but barely. The latest Trulia Housing Barometer, for October, showed us that the market is 47 percent back to normal. And this year, we launched...

The Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor are the earliest leading indicators of how asking prices and rents are trending nationally and locally. They adjust for the changing mix of listed homes and therefore show what's really happening to asking prices and rents. Because asking prices...

Each month, Trulia's Housing Barometer charts how quickly the housing market is moving back to "normal."  We summarize three key housing market indicators: construction starts (Census), existing-home sales (NAR), and the delinquency + foreclosure rate (LPS First Look). For each indicator, we compare this...

Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday during the Civil War, in an attempt to restore peace and unity to the United States. In today's diverse America, Thanksgiving remains widely celebrated and crosses religious, racial, and ethnic lines (though some Native Americans consider Thanksgiving a Day of Mourning), with...

What tricks do sellers and their agents use when setting the price of a home? To find out, we looked at the asking prices of homes for sale on Trulia since October 2011, excluding foreclosures, to see whether certain numbers show up in home prices more than others....