Blame stubbornly high mortgage rates and lingering economic anxieties over Trump policies for US housing-market gridlock.

Developers are buying up Altadena's burned lots. It's a doom or boon for the community, depending on whom you ask.

Just five years ago, someone making $75,000 a year could afford about half of the homes for sale around the country ... for middle-income buyers. Now, not so much. “And that's because the ...