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Canada's housing market showed continued signs of stabilizing in August, with sales rising for a fourth straight month and prices easing.

While new-home construction and sales should rise in the next 18 months, next year's mortgage origination volume estimate was cut slightly as the economy is expected to slow down soon, said Fannie Mae.

Houston-area home sales in August were up an eye-popping 37% over the same month last year, but there's good reason for the astonishing increase: Hurricane Harvey.

Metro Toledo's August home sales rose 4.3% from a year ago, according to new figures from the Toledo Regional Association of Realtors.

Increased sales of lower-priced newly built homes was not enough to counter a decline in mortgage application volume for the segment in August, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

The housing market's long-running trend of fewer sales and higher prices has intensified, adding to worries about affordability in the region.

Mortgage origination volume continues to decline as homebuyers receiving loans bring more money to the closing table.

Overall home sales on the Virginia Peninsula in August were on par with last year, but the median sales price of existing or resold homes continued to increase.

Local home sales and prices kept rising at a rapid clip in August, continuing a six-year trend that has made homeownership increasingly difficult for San Antonio's middle class.

Home prices in 40% of the 35 largest metro areas remain below their precrisis peak, a sign that values in much of the country are far from bubble territory, Zillow said.

Homebuyers are seeking financing options first before even looking for a house, according to loanDepot.

Home sales in the Charlotte metro region continued to decline in August, a sign that more buyers are having trouble finding houses in a tight market.

Mortgage applications decreased 1.8% from one week earlier as refinance submissions fell to their lowest in nearly 18 years, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Housing prices continued their upward trend in August in the Baltimore metro area, with a median sales price of $280,000, up 5.7% from a year ago.

Oahu's housing market took just a small step in August but crossed a big threshold to top the $800,000 price mark for the first time.

The number of Colorado Springs-area homes for sale climbed to a two-year high last month, a sign that buyers finally might be in a better position in a housing market that's favored sellers for the last few years.

Home prices are continuing to fall across an unseasonably cool Seattle real estate market, with homes that would have been snapped up in an instant just several months ago now sitting unsold.

Consumer confidence about the U.S. economy is not correlating with their views on the current state of the housing market, Fannie Mae said.

Home sales and the median price of homes mostly rose on the Big Island and Kauai in August, according to local real estate agent trade association data.

The number of homes on the market surged, the number of sales dropped, and price reductions were abundant last month, all signs that buyers are pulling back in metro Denver.