Housing inventory

It's unclear how the impact of coronavirus on the economy will change the Boise housing market, but it seems unlikely to bring more than a brief halt to the trends of rising prices and intensifying shortages of houses for people of ordinary means.

The number of home sales in the greater New Orleans area dropped sharply in April as the coronavirus pandemic locked down the economy, but prices mostly held steady as many sellers withdrew their properties and took a "wait-and-see" position amid the unprecedented market conditions.

Thousands of fewer homes came onto the market in the St. Louis metro area last month than normal — just 2,400 new listings each week, a 42% drop over this time last year, according to realtor.com.

Residential real estate showings in the Denver metropolitan region, hampered by the COVID-19 outbreak and corresponding stay-at-home orders, hit an all-time low last month.

Hawaii's real estate market is now getting pounded from complications of COVID-19.

Typically, housing-market activity strengthens through the spring before peaking in May, but last month, many metrics of housing-market activity fell by double digits, compared both with last month and with last year.

A once-in-a-century pandemic, widespread lockdowns and economic woe — none of it was enough to keep Bay Area home prices from going up.

As the coronavirus takes a major toll on housing inventory and credit availability, pent-up buyer demand could lead to market recovery, according to Redfin.

Housing prices in Missoula, Mont., saw their largest one-year increase of the last decade, an 8.6% jump, due mainly to a lack of inventory.

The coronavirus disruption caused March's pending home sales to fall and the losses will reverberate through the rest of 2020, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The Southern California housing market was on track for record-setting prices and increased sales before the coronavirus outbreak hit, new numbers show.

Manhattan homebuyers were already calling the shots in deals before the coronavirus hit. Now they're more in control than ever.

The Bakersfield, Calif., home market was on track to finally retake the peak it achieved during the housing bubble.

Sales of new homes slid in March by the most since 2013 as the coronavirus started to wreak havoc on the country’s economy.

Both the number of sales and median prices grew in Miami-Dade and Broward in March, just as coronavirus began to grip South Florida.

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.