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Metro Atlanta home prices are up 4.9% in the past year, slightly outpacing the national average but still the lowest increase in four years.

Falling mortgage rates are giving a lift to homebuilders just in time for the key spring selling season.

There was a huge rise in mortgage refinance application activity due to the large drop in interest rates following last week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

Central Texas home sales climbed 6% last month, as sales volume reached its highest level on record for any February, the Austin Board of Realtors said.

Late payments on single-family home mortgages changed direction and started falling again in Freddie Mac's latest monthly report.

Independent mortgage bankers lost the largest amount for originating a loan in the fourth quarter since this data has been tracked, as costs rose and volume dropped, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

February housing market numbers indicate that while the 2019 year-to-date number of sales is about 1% behind 2018's record-breaking numbers, this will be another banner year for New Mexico housing, according to the New Mexico Association of Realtors.

Central Ohio home sales rose 3.7% in February from a year ago, the biggest jump in more than a year.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities registered their smallest gains since late 2012, decelerating for a 10th month in January as buyers held out for more affordable properties.

New-home groundbreakings fell in February by the most in eight months on a drop in single-family homes, suggesting buyers and builders remain wary despite higher wages and a drop in mortgage rates.