Housing inventory

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.

Oklahoma City area homebuilders are building more houses than they have in seven years, but the market keeps soaking them up, as well as previously owned homes — amid a pandemic and rolling business shutdowns.

New-home sales in the U.S. held up in October, remaining near the best pace since 2006 and well above pre-pandemic levels, the latest sign that record-low mortgage rates are underpinning robust buyer interest.

Default risks soar in minority neighborhoods during challenging economic times because, data shows, homes there are overpriced relative to incomes. Zoning and other changes could make loans more affordable by boosting housing stock and driving down prices.

Tampa Bay's real estate market continued to charge forward in October, marking the fifth straight month of mostly robust numbers since the onset of the pandemic slowed down sales this spring.

Despite a tightening stock of homes on the market, home sales surged 38% last month in the Sarasota-Manatee, Fla., region.

The widening chasm between housing supply and demand drove sales to record growth and prices to a seven-year high in October, according to Redfin.

New-home construction maintained its momentum in October while possible site shutdowns loom.

Homes in some parts of the country spent as little as 20 days on the market, while the U.S. housing supply hit just 1.7 months in October, according to Remax.

Homebuilder confidence jumped in November, hitting another record high as buyers swarmed sales offices to take advantage of the lowest mortgage rates in history.

The coronavirus pandemic has made for a rough year for a number of industries in Central Texas, but the home construction sector hasn't been one of them.

The number of bidding wars increased for the sixth consecutive month, as Salt Lake City remained the most competitive housing market, according to Redfin.

Facing a slim inventory of existing homes for sale, Denver buyers are snapping up new homes at the fastest pace in the country, a rebound so strong that it has caught local builders off guard.