Housing inventory

Sales of previously owned homes dropped in March by the most since November 2015, representing weaker demand that likely is going to get much worse in coming months as the pandemic bears down on the economy.

In March, home sales rose year-over-year for the fourth consecutive month, but the coronavirus inhibited what's typically the biggest monthly boost of the year, according to Remax.

Bay Area home prices rose substantially in March despite a drop in sales compared with last March, but those numbers reflect deals entered into before most counties imposed shelter-in-place orders.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a mild fluctuation in the Savannah, Ga., area real estate market, but many people are still inking closing contracts. At the same time. local industry leaders and agents are turning to technology to help them find their forever homes.

COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented number of homes for sale being withdrawn, canceled or temporarily taken off the market in Sarasota County, Fla., but the prices on the homes that are being sold have held steady, according to a Sarasota real estate firm.

As federal stimulus checks land in bank accounts in coming days, a sobering reality may hit many Bay Area residents — the money will cover less of their housing costs than anywhere else in the country.

Homebuilder sentiment plunged in April to the lowest level in more than seven years as the coronavirus pandemic kept potential buyers quarantined and paralyzed construction in much of the country.

Even before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of single-family homes on the market in Santa Fe County, N.M., was the lowest it's been since officials began keeping such data in 2005.

Demand for housing has recently waned in many parts of the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but that trend has largely not been the case in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Demand for San Diego County homes has waned in recent weeks as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic ripples through the real estate industry.