James Surowiecki tackles the topic of housing futures in the New Yorker this week, giving the two players in the space, HedgeStreet and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a nice credibility boost.

Depending on what you read or watch on television — and it’s all over the news — the housing market is either stalling, slumping, or falling. Or, as veteran investment adviser Martin Weiss of the Safe ...

If the futures markets are to be believed, the real estate prices in all of the ten largest metropolitan markets in the country will be lower one year from today. The range of predicted declines is ...

Your house may be special to you, but to a futures trader dealing in housing contracts, it's just another data point. "At 10,000 feet, housing is a commodity," said Fritz Siebel, a broker at TFS ...

LoanDepot CEO Frank Martell (right) volunteers at Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Each year in the spring, we celebrate Congress’ passage of the groundbreaking Fair Housing Act in 1968 to ...

Though housing starts plummeted in March, Dow futures are adding on to premarket gains. New home construction dropped 14.7% in March as housing starts fell to a 1.32 million annual pace, below the ...

Traders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange think the U.S. housing market may be slowing down and they've got the numbers to prove it, thanks to Yale economist Robert Shiller. Shiller explains a new ...

NEW YORK, July 26 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Monday ahead of data on new home sales, following the best three-week period on the S&P 500 Index in almost a year. * S&P ...