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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%.

The coronavirus pandemic took a toll on the Baton Rouge, La., area housing market in April, with sales dropping 12.6% compared to last year, but prices are holding up.

Ohio's homeownership rate rose in the first quarter of this year to the highest level since 2011, suggesting a robust housing market and growing economic stability.

With the coronavirus impact in full effect, a four-month streak of growth ended in April, according to Remax.

Homebuilder sentiment rose in May by more than forecast following a record slump a month earlier as a pickup in sales and demand expectations pointed to stabilization in the real estate market.

San Antonio's housing market is slowing down amid the coronavirus pandemic, but prices are still rising.

Santa Fe County bore the brunt of home sale declines in New Mexico, with a 34% wallop in April as the novel coronavirus took a bite out of homebuyers' and sellers' appetites.

While most work activities were halted in April to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, people continued to buy and sell real estate.

The economic contraction will keep mortgage rates low for the foreseeable future.

As businesses temporarily shut down and joblessness climbed to Depression-era levels, home sales in the metro area plunged last month, according to the Atlanta Realtors Association.

Stay-at-home orders dealt a heavy blow to home sales across the state in April, but they didn't knock the market off its feet, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors.

If employers maintain flexible working practices after lockdowns get lifted, housing preferences and subsequent property values could greatly change.

Some real estate agents say there are signs the local housing market has started to rebound since late March, when efforts to reduce the spread of the virus led to stay-at-home orders in Austin and elsewhere.

U.S. home prices continued climbing in the first quarter, before the impact of the pandemic's economic shutdown took hold.

North Texas home sales slid in April as buyers sheltered in place from the pandemic.

In a study of four metro areas, housing supply and demand gained momentum in the second half of April, even where the COVID-19 curve continued to grow.