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Connecticut closed out the spring home buying market on a positive, with both sales and prices rising in July, a new report showed.

After their first increase in six weeks, mortgage applications declined despite lower interest rates, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes unexpectedly declined in July, signaling that buyers are balking at higher prices and a lack of choices in some regions, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Sales of single-family homes in Maine showed strong gains in both their prices and the number sold in July, according to data by Maine Listings.

More Charlotte home listings saw price cuts in June than a year earlier, indicating that Charlotte’s housing market is shifting "ever-so-slightly in favor of buyers," a Zillow report says.

The typical Portland-area home is out of reach for a median-wage family, new home-sale figures show.

In New Mexico, total home sales rose 32% year-over-year for a total of 18,274 homes sold across the state. The median price increased 5.5% to $200,000.

Home sales climbed back up in central Ohio and throughout the state in July, despite dropping nationally to the lowest level in more than two years.

Purchases of new homes unexpectedly dipped to the weakest pace in nine months as higher prices and mortgage rates sideline demand, adding to signs of a cooling in the housing market.

Almost $50 billion. That's how much Spokane County, Wash., is worth, according to this year's property assessments, up $4.1 billion over last year.

Sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly slumped for a fourth month to the weakest in more than two years, signaling higher prices and tight supplies continue to squeeze demand, a National Association of Realtors report showed.

Mortgage applications increased 4.2% from one week earlier, rising for the first time in over a month, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

After four straight months in which four out of 10 home buyers in Santa Cruz County, Calif., paid in excess of $1 million, more buyers in July closed deals in the less expensive areas of the county and the median price dipped from $927,500 to $885,000.

A Minnesota Supreme Court decision that upholds limits on how much communities can charge developers is being hailed as a major victory for those who argue that such fees are making housing in the Twin Cities unaffordable.

The market for vacation homes at Hawaii resorts rebounded last year to its highest level of sales in nearly a decade, according to a recent report.

While home sales are down across New York City during the second quarter of 2018, Staten Island is bucking this trend with an uptick in both sales and prices.

An improved economy, a healthy labor market and the large population of millennials should have accelerated home sales much higher, but all hope for more transactions this year is not yet lost, according to the NAR.

It's happening in larger, pricier housing markets: Buyers are starting to get fatigued, indicated by modest drops in existing home sales, mostly in competitive Western states like California and Washington.

Home prices are rising again in New Orleans after taking a dip last year, giving a boost to property owners but also likely intensifying the city's shortage of affordable housing.

The imbalance between homebuyers and sellers in the Twin Cities last month was a little less out of whack than it's been in years, but sellers still rule when it comes to the entry-level market.