Home prices

It's now definitive: Before coronavirus hit, the Seattle area's home market was hotter than almost anywhere else in the country.

Contracts to buy existing homes plunged in March by the most since 2010 as the coronavirus forced people to stay home and the economy spiraled down.

The Southern California housing market was on track for record-setting prices and increased sales before the coronavirus outbreak hit, new numbers show.

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Dallas-area home prices were up just 2.5% in the latest national comparison, but the small year-over-year increase came in February before the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the market.

The Greater Capital Association of Realtors released market numbers, showing pending sales in March were down 21% from March of last year, and closed sales dropped by 10% compared to March 2019 as the impact of COVID-19 spreads through the local real estate market.

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Pre-pandemic, home-buying power was high, but few are likely to buy a home today given a host of uncertainties regarding coronavirus, First American said.

The Bakersfield, Calif., home market was on track to finally retake the peak it achieved during the housing bubble.

The coronavirus outbreak has shuttered business and kept people hunkered down in their homes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's also resulted in a market that experts describe as essentially frozen in place.

In the days before COVID-19 entered American consciousness, home prices in San Diego climbed near record territory.

A statewide stay at home order imposed in late March didn't stop Dayton Realtors from hitting their highest monthly sales figures so far in 2020.

Sales of new homes slid in March by the most since 2013 as the coronavirus started to wreak havoc on the country’s economy.

Sales volumes fell by over 50% in some states since the shelter-in-place mandate started, according to HouseCanary.

Wisconsin started out 2020 with an increase in home sales and median prices of houses over the same time in 2019, but the coronavirus pandemic is expected to have a major influence on the market now.

Both the number of sales and median prices grew in Miami-Dade and Broward in March, just as coronavirus began to grip South Florida.

Toronto home sales and listings plunged in the first part of April as the COVID-19 pandemic curbed demand in Canada's largest city.

Mortgage fraud risk plummeted in the first quarter of 2020 amid historically low mortgage rates and a boom of refinances, but the coronavirus could create a new set of risks, according to CoreLogic.

Sales of previously owned homes dropped in March by the most since November 2015, representing weaker demand that likely is going to get much worse in coming months as the pandemic bears down on the economy.

Separate reports from Radian and Redfin show home values rose during March despite a slowdown in sales, but that is likely to change as shelter-in-place orders affect the real estate markets.