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After two months of steep drops, home sales leveled off in the Sarasota-Manatee, Fla., region in June.

Sales of previously owned homes rose in June for the first time in four months as the economy reopened more broadly from coronavirus-related shutdowns and buyers took advantage of record-low mortgage rates.

The growing pandemic caused Texas home sales to drop to the lowest level in eight years in May.

Contract signings to purchase previously owned homes surged in May by the most on record as mortgage rates fell and some states began to reopen from coronavirus lockdowns.

Sales of homes for May were down in Butler County and the Greater Cincinnati area, a trend that was anticipated due to the Ohio stay-at-home order.

Sales of single-family existing homes in Maine fell by a staggering 21.3% in May from a year earlier, nearly matching the most recent comparable one-year decline of 21.4% following the Great Recession, in June 2011.

Sales of previously owned homes dropped in May by more than forecast to the lowest level since October 2010 as the coronavirus pandemic sent demand skidding along with the rest of the economy.

An index of contract signings for purchases of previously owned homes slumped to a record low in April as coronavirus lockdowns thwarted prospective buyers.

Central Ohio home sales fell sharply in April and dropped to their lowest level in a decade nationally, as the coronavirus pandemic took full hold of the real estate market.

Sales of previously owned homes fell in April by the most since mid-2010 as the coronavirus hollowed out demand across the country at the start of the key spring selling season.