Home prices

While April saw an increase in condominium sales, May saw an increase in sales of family homes in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Colorado Springs-area home prices soared to a second consecutive record high last month, as a steady demand on the part of buyers and a dearth of properties for sale helped to send housing costs higher.

Median sale prices for Oahu homes dipped last month in what continued a trend this year of light, mostly downward movement for the broad measure of Honolulu housing costs.

The Puget Sound housing market continues to splinter into hot and cold sectors — with substantially more heat the farther south you move — but the trend may be moderating as buyers and sellers adjust their expectations.

While home equity gains realized their lowest increase since 2012, the first quarter's rate still helped pull borrowers from underwater as the equity total compiled $5.6 trillion in seven years, according to CoreLogic.

For the first time since 2012, home prices are falling in metro Orlando, new data and real estate experts say.

The median sale price for single-family homes in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, climbed in May for the third consecutive month, reaching $157,500 in the suburbs and $139,000 countywide.

Toronto's housing market came storming back in May as sales in Canada's biggest city soared 19% from the same month a year earlier.

Orange County house prices were just 1% above year-ago levels in April, while prices in Los Angeles County increased by a mere 2.3%, CoreLogic reported.

Homeowner remodeling spending should moderate across the majority of the nation's largest metropolitan areas as home price appreciation cools, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.