Housing inventory

The inventory of homes for sale is at a seven-year low and that is likely to continue to shrink in the coming months, a Zillow report said.

The rate of home sales reached a 33-month peak in December, swinging the pendulum of supply and demand, and pushing value appreciation to a 19-month high, according to Redfin.

As expected, 2019 was another banner year for the Austin-area housing market.

Canadian real estate is increasingly becoming a seller's market as supply shrinks to decade lows, raising the prospect of rising prices and the re-emergence of froth in some major cities.

Home sales in metro Baton Rouge, La., were 2.2% higher in 2019 than the year before, thanks to a year-end push.

Homebuilder sentiment posted the highest back-to-back readings since 1999, as developers saw a surge in prospective buyers and a bump in the sales outlook.

The Lehigh Valley ended the year 2019 with a record: The lowest monthly supply of housing the local Realtors' association has ever recorded.

Homebuyers across most of Colorado, not just those in metro Denver, are faced with much slimmer pickings heading into 2020, according to December market reports from the Colorado Association of Realtors.

From 2015-18, the time a home spent on the multiple listing service in metro Denver averaged a consistently short 26 days, but last year that average jumped to 31 days.

Colorado Springs-area homes sold at a near-record clip last year, but an inventory shortage held the market back from being even better.