Home prices

COVID-19 continues to upend the Massachusetts residential real estate market as sales of both single-family homes and condos have crashed roughly 23% and 30%, respectively, this June compared with last.

Santa Fe County had the highest median home sales price in the state in June, and New Mexico had its highest statewide median sales price of $231,000 since the New Mexico Association of Realtors started keeping statistics in 2008.

Despite concerns with the COVID-19 pandemic, the area real estate market saw activity in June that was consistent with June 2019.

After taking a deep dive in March and April due to the pandemic, housing sales throughout the Twin Cities rebounded in May, coming back strong to even make up lost ground.

The median price for detached homes in Marin County, Calif., rose 5.3% in June over the prior year, marking the first solid gain since the coronavirus arrested the market.

The South Florida luxury housing market suffered headwinds in the second quarter. The number of sales dropped up to 55.6% year-over-year in one neighborhood.

After two months of declines in the coronavirus pandemic, the Boise, Idaho, area housing market rebounded in June with a 3.4% increase in homes sold compared with June 2019.

The Rhode Island Association of Realtors said that the number of single-family houses sold in June was down 14.6% from the same month a year ago.

The South Florida housing market is experiencing its highest overvaluation in eight years. Still, a housing crisis is unlikely, one expert said.

After a couple of months of steep double-digit declines, Central Texas home sales rebounded in June across the Austin area, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

Bay Area home sales plummeted in May, falling by more than one-third in most counties and by nearly half in San Francisco as COVID-19 fears chilled buyers and sellers.

The Charlotte, N.C., housing market is slowly beginning to recover from the economic downturn of the COVID-19 pandemic, new data from the local real estate association show.

San Diego home prices will decrease 1.3% in the next 12 months, much less than other parts of the nation.

Residential property prices in the U.K. fell by the most since the global financial crisis from April through June, according to mortgage provider Halifax.

Nearly a decade of growth in home prices in the Sarasota-Manatee, Fla., region could be coming to an end.

Property owners are taking a wait-and-see approach, possibly because of economic uncertainty.

After steep declines in April and May, North Texas home sales rebounded in June. Area real estate agents sold 16% more single-family homes than in June of 2019.

While very low inventory prevented a full market recovery, pricier home listings only trail year-ago totals by 9.2%, according to Zillow.

Booming refinancing is expected to more than offset the tighter underwriting in second-quarter mortgage results.

It's a tough time to be shopping for a home around Seattle. Blame the coronavirus pandemic.