Housing inventory

Homebuilders are growing confident in 55+ communities, which could suggest more movement in the housing market at a time when homeowners continue aging in place.

Affordability remains a challenge for homebuyers, but barely any mortgage lenders attribute last year's sluggish home sales to insufficient consumer income or lack of loan products for new buyers, according to Fannie Mae.

Sales of new homes rebounded in November to the strongest pace in eight months as lower prices helped to attract more buyers.

Even with a vibrant residential real estate market in Maine's major cities, homeowners in the state tend to stay put longer than those in the 50 largest American cities.

Sales of single family-homes in the Tampa Bay area plunged in December as prices again rose.

Jan. 22--Home sales in metro Baton Rouge were 5.3 percent lower in 2018 than the year before, but home prices continued to rise as did the inventory and days on the market.

Property values have continued rising across the country, but six cities bucking the national trend are leading a shift in the housing market, which could lessen affordability hurdles for homebuyers, according to First American Financial Corp.

The median home price in the city of Santa Fe in 2018, based on sales over the year, came to a record $370,000, surpassing the prerecession peak of $360,000 in 2007.

The percentage of first-time homebuyers financed through builder D.R. Horton's in-house mortgage unit has risen notably as market trends have driven it to intensify its focus on lower-priced housing.

The real estate industry is expecting homebuilders to add more inventory this year, but new-home sales tanked in the closing months of 2018, according to Redfin.

As homebuyers try to get more for their money and flee the expensive coastal housing markets, the largest jumps in annual home appreciation took place all around the country's interior, according to Zillow.

The real estate industry is expecting homebuilders, with the aid of local governments, to add more financially attainable starter homes to the market and ease burdens for buyers, according to Redfin.

The Colorado Springs housing market will remain strong in 2019, but should strike a fairer balance between buyers and sellers, one local real estate expert says.

In a slow mortgage market, construction loans are considered the most likely source of growth for lenders, according to a new study.

Sales of previously owned homes fell to the slowest pace in more than three years, falling short of estimates and indicating that the housing market remained in a slowdown as the year ended.

Fewer houses getting sold helped gains in inventory and brought down the rate of sales price growth to wrap up 2018, according to Redfin.

Despite tough housing conditions, slower home price growth and increased inventory could mean a more balanced market is ahead, according to Remax.

Available homes for sale and the amount of time those homes stayed on the market both fell in December, according to the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors.

For 51 straight months dating to autumn 2014, the supply of existing homes in Ada County, Idaho, has fallen in comparison with the same month a year earlier.

Sentiment among homebuilders rose for the first time in three months amid a decline in borrowing costs, a sign that housing may stabilize in the year ahead even as the industry remains in a broad slowdown.