Paul & Tenesha Austin’s home was valued at $998K. Weeks later, they had a white friend pose as their property’s owner — and it was suddenly worth $1.5M.

Sharan White-Jenkins is a proud Black homeowner in Jamaica, Queens, in New York City. She’s part of a line of homeowners that goes back to her grandparents, who purchased a home on the Virginia ...

A couple asked for a second appraisal on their home after removing any signs that a Black family lived there. The first time, it was $100K less than expected.

Yet over the past decade, the gap in homeownership between Black and white Americans widened to a 10-year high, according to a news release Thursday from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).