Housing inventory

Homes sales in Oklahoma didn't hit the skids in April, just a patch of black ice, but everyone managed to keep it between the ditches.

Home sales dipped in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the decline in Virginia wasn't as severe as many had anticipated, according to Virginia Realtors.

Home sales in Chattanooga, Tenn., fell nearly 18% last month and the inventory of houses on the market fell by more than 26% as home-bound Chattanoogans were less likely to want to either buy or sell their homes during the worst of the coronavirus shutdowns in April.

Some cities saw drops in annual housing supply nearing 40% in early May, according to Zillow.

Potential purchasers are looking to take advantage of low rates, despite worries about job security.

Home sales in Volusia and Flagler counties in Florida declined in April, but prices continued to rise, area Realtors' associations reported.

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.

It's the surprise of a spring selling season that's been anything but normal: Buyers returning to the housing market have been battling over the few available properties.

Austin-area home sales declined sharply in April as the fuller impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and local shelter-in-place orders left their mark on the housing market, new figures from the Austin Board of Realtors show.

Illustrating the chilling effects the coronavirus crisis has had on the housing market, Southern California home sales fell 26.6% in April compared with a month earlier, while year-over-year sales were down 31.5%.