Housing inventory

Even with the small increase in mortgage rates this past week, the home purchase market stayed active and should remain so for the peak buying season.

Following a record 2019 for the Central Texas housing market, 2020 has kicked off in much the same way, with home sales and median sales prices again reaching record highs in January.

It is the start of a new decade, and here are six trends that will play a critical role in reshaping the mortgage industry.

Baton Rouge, La.-area home sales were up 18% in January compared to the year before when numbers likely were affected by a federal government shutdown.

For the first time since the start of the housing crisis, mortgage origination volume could top $2 trillion for three consecutive years, according to Fannie Mae.

U.S. homebuilder sentiment in February remained near the highest level since 1999 as lower borrowing costs kept construction firms upbeat about sales prospects.

Last May, Redfin elevated Tacoma, Wash., on the nation's real estate map with a report saying the city was the nation's hottest market.

It's been slim pickings inside the Cape Cod housing market for quite a while, the past year at least.

After a record year for home sales in 2019, Chattanooga Realtors are starting 2020 with even stronger residential sales.

Thurston County, Wash., home sellers are in total control.

Real estate in the Magic Valley region of Idaho keeps getting more valuable.

Boulder and Estes Park saw median home prices fall in January as compared to the same month in 2019, but elsewhere in the region prices ticked up modestly.

From the heartland to the desert, here's a look at 10 housing markets where buyers are looking to move — and the high-cost markets they're leaving, according to Redfin.

February has become the new spring, according to panelists at the Fredericksburg (Va.) Area Association of Realtors' 2020 Vision: FAAR Housing Outlook round-table meeting.

Consumer sentiment about purchasing a home nears its record high as almost half of those surveyed said mortgage rates will stay at the current low levels, according to Fannie Mae.

Falling interest rates, strong job growth and declining inventories could be setting the conditions for a spring reprise of the painfully hot housing market of 2017, Seattle area real estate agents say.

A shrinking supply of available homes for sale in Canada's largest city continued to drive prices higher last month, bringing annual increases to the strongest in more than two years.

Home sellers came off the sidelines in January and showed buyers they were ready to play ball.

Australia's property revival is spreading across the country with prices now rising in every major city.

After the 2017 October fires in Sonoma County, Calif., prices inflated in 2018 as the destruction strongly stoked demand for homes. Last year, the housing market cooled and balanced itself.