Home prices

Strong home purchase activity — especially by millennials — pushed up annual price appreciation in July after a disappointing June, according to CoreLogic.

The bucket of homeowners in the money to refinance includes anyone who bought a home in the last 18 months, and lenders are on the phone calling them.

Home price gains in the Twin Cities metro have outpaced the national average for much of the year, but those gains have cooled in recent months.

In a reprieve for Southern California's sluggish housing market, home sales rose in July from a year earlier. It was the first sales increase in 12 months.

A final rule on residential appraisals published this month could save depositories time and money in the short term, but potentially increase collateral risk.

For the second month in a row, Seattle is the only major American city where home prices were lower than a year ago.

Home sale prices in Massachusetts continued their ascent in July, setting a new all-time high for the month and rising to a level nearly 20% higher than five years ago and nearly 40% higher than July 2009.

About 80% of Opportunity Zones had median home prices below the national mark of $266,000 in the second quarter, with 47% of them below $150,000, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Mortgage debt climbed to a new peak of $9.4 trillion in the second quarter and the distribution across the U.S. varies greatly.

Single-family home prices in Colorado Springs rose by 8.2% from the second quarter of last year to the second quarter of 2019, which ranked as the fifth highest appreciation rate among the nation's 100 largest metro areas.

Portland-area home price growth held steady in June amid a nationwide slowdown.

Double digits. That's how much Treasure Valley housing prices have shot up in the past year. The spike is so extreme, no other metro area in the U.S. can touch it.

Dallas-area home price gains continued to lag national increases in the latest housing market update.

While affordability continues to affect homebuyers, rising income combined with descending interest rates and decelerating housing values boosted the purchase market, according to First American.

Homes in the Rockford, Ill., region sold for $147,000 on average last month, the highest monthly average price since July 2006.

Home-price gains in 20 U.S. cities decelerated for a 15th straight month and were weaker than projected, pointing to continued cooling in the housing market.

The median sales price for existing single-family homes in Manatee County, Fla., hit $325,000 in July, the highest median price since the housing crisis and Great Recession more than a decade ago — and near a historic all-time high.

Sales of existing single-family homes in Maine remained relatively flat in July compared with a year earlier, while the median sale price increased by about 2%.

Sales of new homes fell in July, missing estimates, after an upward revision to the prior month brought those sales to the highest level since 2007, a sign that lower borrowing costs may be helping stabilize purchases.

Austin-area home sales and the median price of those homes both hit all-time highs last month for any July on record, the Austin Board of Realtors said.