Home prices

Charlotte's housing market got off to a slow start in 2019, and some experts say that the government shutdown is partially to blame.

Home prices in the greater New Orleans region were on the rise at the end of 2018, according to the National Association of Realtors.

From the gateway to the West to just below the Mason-Dixon Line, here's a look at the 12 housing markets with the highest percentage of homes affordable to millennial purchasers with median incomes.

Economic growth in the Rockford, Ill., region helped the housing market reach sales milestones in 2018 not seen in more than a decade.

The market for new homes in Houston is expected to be flat for the next couple of years amid a tight supply of lots, a local housing analyst said.

The share of home shoppers planning on buying a house within a year tanked in the fourth quarter, and those who are searching blame affordability struggles for their setbacks, according to the National Association of Home Builders.

King County's cooling housing market has turned downright chilly as prices have dropped to their lowest point in two years — with the median home now selling for $116,000 less than last spring.

Consumers have higher household incomes and more faith in cooling home price and mortgage rate growth than they did a year ago, which could allude to a stabilized housing market in 2019, according to Fannie Mae.

The median sales price for existing single-family homes sold in Southern Nevada in January was $300,000, according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

Mortgage growth has shrunk to a 17-year low in Canada, increasing pressure on the country's big banks to find business elsewhere.

Inventory deficiency and affordability issues kept sales down and hampered home price growth, according to CoreLogic.

After years of frenzied price increases, sales of new homes in Canada's biggest city sunk to the lowest in almost two decades in 2018 and the supply of unsold condos piled up.

In Baltimore, single women own about 24% of all owner-occupied homes in the city, outnumbering single male homeowners, who account for about 11%, according to a LendingTree report.

The seven-year fever driving up Bay Area home prices may finally be breaking.

Without the clashing fervor of potential homebuyers competing, fewer sellers are fetching above-listing prices on their houses, according to Zillow.

The Spokane, Wash., housing market is bucking national trends, with home prices continuing to rise here.

The housing market's chill grew colder in December, as sales plunged across Southern California and home prices barely rose.

Affordability remains a challenge for homebuyers, but barely any mortgage lenders attribute last year's sluggish home sales to insufficient consumer income or lack of loan products for new buyers, according to Fannie Mae.

While home sellers gained the most money on their houses since 2006, the fading impact of tax cuts and slow rise of mortgage rates could shorten upcoming margins, according to Attom Data Solutions.

Sales of single-family houses in Rhode Island dropped 15.6% in December from the same month a year ago, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors said.