Housing inventory

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.

A fight over how to fix California's worst-in-the-nation housing shortage is about to heat up again in Sacramento.

Homebuyers in metro Denver will need to put aside visions of a more bountiful banquet of properties for sale as current owners are staying in their homes.

Whatcom County in northwestern Washington state went from falling prices and plenty of inventory in 2009 to high prices and low inventory in 2019

Median sale prices for existing single-family homes rose in November, up 6.1% to $222,900 in Volusia County, and up 4.7% to $235,400 in Flagler County.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose at the best pace in five months in October, posting a second straight acceleration as real estate markets showed fresh strength at the start of the fourth quarter.

Kansas City metro home prices are growing faster than rates in most U.S. cities, including boomtowns like Denver, Nashville and Austin.

Home sales for the Greater Cincinnati area lost momentum last month, while the average price continued to climb.

Contract signings to purchase previously owned homes increased in November for the third time in four months, consistent with steady progress in the residential real estate market.

In 2009, there was hardly a block in the Tampa Bay area that didn't have at least one house in foreclosure.

Sales of new homes increased in November, capping the best three months for demand since 2007 and reflecting sustained momentum in a residential real estate market that’s helping to underpin the economy.

Pending new home sales increased both on a month-to-month and annual basis, benefitting from the current low mortgage rate environment, although they are still constrained by inventory issues, a Meyers Research report said.

Metro Atlanta home prices continued their climb in November as sellers continued to hold the advantage in negotiations.

Although the housing market in the Twin Cities metro posted only modest gains during November, house prices rose to a new high.

Mortgage rates ended the week unchanged from the previous seven-day period, according to Freddie Mac, although not without some gyrations from the results of the elections in the United Kingdom and U.S-China trade talks.

Sales of previously owned homes declined to a five-month low in November, indicating lean inventories are holding back a residential real estate market that's been supported by low mortgage rates and job growth.

November was another month in the latter part of 2019 where actual existing-home sales outperformed their potential, but that momentum seems unlikely to continue in 2020, First American said.