Housing inventory

While the haggling tapered off slightly alongside the housing market’s seasonal slowdown, home sales remained five times more competitive than the year before, according to Redfin.

Homebuilder confidence eased slightly in December to the second-best level on record following the prior month’s peak, signaling that low mortgage rates are still giving the industry a major boost.

Home sales in the San Antonio area rose for the sixth straight month as prices continued increasing and the inventory of available houses kept tightening.

Albuquerque, N.M., home prices dipped slightly from October to November, but still remained well above where they stood 12 months earlier.

While distressed mortgage rates crept down overall, serious delinquencies still tripled year-ago rates in September, according to CoreLogic.

Despite an unpredictable year, one degree of normalcy has returned to Seattle-area home sales: In a dip typical of the winter season, fewer homes were on the market in November and fewer new sellers were listing.

This fall's red-hot housing market in Duluth, Minn., has more than made up for time lost to the pandemic this spring.

October's annual appreciation rate was at its fastest since April 2014, CoreLogic said.

Metro Denver's housing market seems unstoppable, setting record after record in the resale market and leading the country for the gain in pending new home sales.

A gauge of contract signings to purchase previously owned homes unexpectedly declined for a second month in October as higher prices and a limited number of listings impeded momentum in the housing market.