Home prices

Sales of previously owned homes declined to a five-month low in November, indicating lean inventories are holding back a residential real estate market that's been supported by low mortgage rates and job growth.

Southern California house prices jumped 7.5% in the 12 months ending in November, the biggest gain in the state, according to the California Association of Realtors.

London bore the brunt of heightened political uncertainty in October, with house prices posting their biggest monthly decline for more than eight years.

Canadian home sales picked up in November as a rebound in Toronto and Vancouver offset weakness in Calgary.

The number of homes sold in metro Baton Rouge in November dropped by 2.4% from the year before, while home prices and the number of properties for sale also decreased.

The National Association of Realtors predicted the Las Vegas housing market would likely overperform over the next several years, contradicting a recent report from a national real estate listing website.

Even with an increase in both new and existing home construction activity during November, the slowdown over the previous 11 months will constrain inventory going into 2020, according to BuildFax.

Economists see little break in the feverish Bay Area residential real estate market coming in 2020.

Albuquerque is expected to have more empty houses than most cities, due to the baby boomer generation leaving their single-family homes behind.

As home value appreciation keeps churning, the share of those upside down on their mortgage grows smaller than ever, according to CoreLogic's Home Equity Report.