Texas

North Texas home sales slid in April as buyers sheltered in place from the pandemic.

Houston home sales plunged more than 20% in April from year-ago figures as sellers took properties off the market and buyers stayed home through the coronavirus-induced shutdown.

Houston real estate agent Tim Surratt decided late last week to hold his first open house since the coronavirus pandemic broke out.

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices have slightly declined in each of the last three quarters.

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.

Many El Paso, Texas, homebuilders are opening model homes only for appointments, or in other ways limiting access to the homes, which for years have been their best selling tool. Home construction continues.

Home sales and prices in San Antonio kept rising in March, but a slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic may lie ahead.

North Texas housing starts and new home sales surged in the first quarter, but most of those gains came before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the area's economy.

North Texas home sales and prices continued to rise in March from a year earlier, but last month's home sales snapshot mostly reflects contracts signed in January and February, before the pandemic hit.

Social distancing, stay-home orders and a worsening economic crisis are upending Houston's housing market.