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Home sales in the Baltimore area plummeted in May, the steepest drop in a decade amid the pandemic, but record-low mortgage rates are pushing buyers into the housing market.

A lack of inventory and low interest rates helped keep Minnesota home sale prices rising as pending sales dropped in May, according to Minnesota Realtors.

Home sales in the San Antonio area plunged 20% in May, the market's worst stretch since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Home sales in New Hampshire cratered in May thanks to fewer homes on the market and more caution by sellers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Now the shutdown has stretched into mid-June, effectively canceling the long-anticipated Memorial Day listings bonanza.

The coronavirus pandemic is driving rents down in San Francisco and across the region, reshaping a housing market that for the past decade has generated enormous profits for residential developers while displacing tens of thousands of workers from the inner Bay Area.

Home sale prices in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, continued their usual spring rise through May, though the number of sales were down amid the coronavirus crisis.

Southern California housing markets are rebounding off what arguably was the worst April in the history books.

A federal grand jury indicted Ronald J. McCord, 69, of Oklahoma City, on charges of defrauding two banks, Fannie Mae, and others of millions of dollars, money laundering, and making a false statement to a financial institution, said Timothy J. Downing, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.

As brick-and-mortar shopping centers steadily lost market share to online competitors, the family behind three of the four biggest malls in North America built a thriving business by infusing their properties with heavy doses of entertainment.

Sales of single-family homes and condominiums on Oahu tanked in May as owners and buyers elected to practice social distancing.

A house in Cornwall, N.Y., goes on the market and has eight buyers check it out in one day. Two promptly offer the full price of $305,000, which the winning bidder later upped to $340,000.

When the coronavirus pandemic began in earnest in March, the Las Vegas real estate market was able to hold steady, thanks in part to an abundance of sales already in the pipeline.

After months of hiding out from the coronavirus, North Texas homebuyers are heading out to hunt for properties.

A $740 million jury verdict against Amrock was thrown out by a Texas appeals court that said tech firm HouseCanary failed to prove the big title insurer stole its trade secrets to build a competing real estate analysis tool.

Eager buyers and reluctant sellers pushed Bay Area homes prices higher again in April, fueling quick sales and a robust market despite coronavirus restrictions.

Virginia's housing market has demonstrated greater resiliency than many housing markets across the country even though home sales have slowed across much of the state as a result of COVID-19.

Houston-area home closings surged last week for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

One criticism of the CARES Act is that it provides relief only to borrowers with government-backed loans. Bills in New York and California would cover the remaining 30% of homeowners.

Australia has announced a A$688 million ($476 million) stimulus package aimed at bolstering the housing construction industry, as the coronavirus-hit economy heads for its first recession in 29 years.