The first quarter ended with decent home sales activity, but the rest of the year should be even better. Here's why.

Thanks to population growth, the number of home owning households in our country normally rises by about 1 million each year. But economic conditions will sometimes throw a hurdle in the way of that.

Amid all the news coverage about how the housing market is still in the tank, there’s one piece of news that seems to have escaped most commentators: Housing is at its most affordable level in decades.

Whatever deficit reduction might be realized by cutting the mortgage interest deduction would come at an intolerably steep price: trillions of dollars in wealth destruction and a new uncertainty in what has long been recognized as a bedrock of our economy.