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While down from the year before, December's housing value appreciation kept churning and should climb in 2020 to a new all-time high, according to CoreLogic.

The Spokane, Wash., real estate market remains extremely tight and active, with relatively few houses available, high demand and rising home prices mirroring national trends.

Home sales were up in all three of the Greensboro-High Point, N.C., metropolitan area's counties of Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham.

A year-end surge in Dallas-area home sales is carrying over into the New Year, and local real estate agents are hoping that the increase in business will stretch into the summer.

After a months-long slump in Bay Area home prices, the market appears poised to drive higher as buyers act on low interest rates and fight for scarce inventory.

Loan application defect risk fell in December after stabilizing the prior month, but it's not dropping as it quickly as it once was, according to First American Financial.

The U.S. homeownership rate rose to a six-year high in the fourth quarter, led by gains among young people and low-income Americans.

Mortgage rates continued sliding this week as investors put money into safer assets like bonds, contributing to the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropping 9 basis points, according to Freddie Mac.

Dwindling inventories of existing homes in Toronto is driving sales of pricier newly built housing, another sign of tightening in Canada's largest real estate market.

Rising home prices allowed central Ohio homeowners to make more on the sale of their homes last year than ever.

Connecticut's home sale market ended 2019 pretty much the way it began the year, as overall prices for single-family houses remained stuck in neutral and sales slipped, compared with the previous year.

Contract signings to purchase previously owned homes unexpectedly slumped in December, depressed by fewer listings of properties and representing a blemish after a recent spate of positive housing-market news.

Metro Atlanta home prices outpaced all but three other Sun Belt cities during the past year, according to a high-profile national survey.

Mortgage applications increased 7.2% from one week earlier as consumers reacted to falling interest rates related to news regarding the coronavirus, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

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The pace of new-home sales slowed in Houston and other top Texas markets in December, according to a new HomesUSA.com report.

Flasgstar Bancorp's mixed results in its fourth-quarter earnings report are a sign strategic shifts it made to make its earnings less volatile are working.

Between 2014 and the third quarter of 2019, the median price of a single-family home in the Boise area increased 75%, to $303,100 from $172,900, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in November at the fastest pace in nine months against a backdrop of stronger demand and lean housing inventory.

December was a busy month in Tampa Bay real estate as the number of single-family home sales jumped more than 25% in Hillsborough and Pasco counties compared with the same month in 2018.