Home prices

Australia's property revival is spreading across the country with prices now rising in every major city.

After the 2017 October fires in Sonoma County, Calif., prices inflated in 2018 as the destruction strongly stoked demand for homes. Last year, the housing market cooled and balanced itself.

The Spokane, Wash., real estate market remains extremely tight and active, with relatively few houses available, high demand and rising home prices mirroring national trends.

With steady home price appreciation and falling interest rates, by some measures the shares of distressed mortgages existing in the market shrunk to record lows, according to Black Knight.

For people in their 20s and 30s, New Hampshire's home prices are rising as fast as their concerns over affording a place to live.

Home prices were up 3.9% annually in the San Diego metropolitan area in November, outpacing all other West Coast markets, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices reported.

Home sales were up in all three of the Greensboro-High Point, N.C., metropolitan area's counties of Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham.

A year-end surge in Dallas-area home sales is carrying over into the New Year, and local real estate agents are hoping that the increase in business will stretch into the summer.

After a months-long slump in Bay Area home prices, the market appears poised to drive higher as buyers act on low interest rates and fight for scarce inventory.

Many American homeowners count on the equity in their property to help fund their retirement years, but they might be overconfident by relying on that, according to Unison.