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Home prices in 20 U.S. cities accelerated in January from a year earlier, marking the fifth straight annual gain and corroborating other recent data that showed a flurry of housing market activity prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

The hot start to home sales in Lafayette Parish, La., and elsewhere in Acadiana has slowed due to the novel coronavirus and may continue for the next two or three months.

An index of contract signings for the purchase of previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly increased in February to a three-year high, representing solid housing activity that's likely to retrench because of the pandemic.

For the housing market in the Twin Cities, it's looking a lot like January as the COVID-19 pandemic puts a chill on homes sales in the metro.

The real estate industry, struggling with coronavirus-linked limitations, got a boost with its sales business reclassified as an "essential" industry.

It doesn't appear that the slowing local and national economy has had much of an effect on the Missoula, Mont., real estate market yet, which has been a seller's market since the end of the last recession.

Title underwriters won’t be hit as hard by the coronavirus as other insurers, but related economic changes will challenge them, Fitch Ratings said, in assigning a negative outlook to the sector.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little's order telling Idahoans to stay home for 21 days is likely to create havoc for the state's real estate industry.

Canadians' interest in searching for houses online is waning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to real estate portal Point2 Homes.

With ambiguity surrounding the length of the COVID-19 outbreak and damage it will cause, consumers are becoming diffident in taking out a mortgage for a major purchase, according to Zillow.