Real estate

Home sales in Greater Hartford continued to surge in August with houses selling faster and at higher prices than the same month a year ago.

The number of pending sales in Sonoma County, Calif., was up 27% from June through August 2020 versus the same period in 2019 and the percentage of properties that went off the market within two weeks was up 8% in the same period in 2020 versus 2019.

The Harrisburg, Pa., area real estate market has come a long way since it was shut down completely by Gov. Tom Wolf due to COVID-19 back in March and reopened slowly in April and May.

Anticipated population growth has multifamily investors spending more on apartment buildings despite sales volume dropping by 50% for the first half of 2020, compared to the year-ago period, in Miami-Dade and Broward.

The median sale price for a home in the Capital Region continues to increase, showing a 5% jump in July, compared with a year ago, and $6,500 from June to July.

Leslie DeLuca has been a real estate agent in Monterey County, Calif., for 20 years and thought she'd seen every fluctuation of the market.

The lightning-ignited Hennessey Fire destroyed 254 single-family homes in Napa County, Calif., making it one of the most destructive in county history, Cal Fire reported.

In a summer surprise, home values continued an upward surge again last month in the Sacramento region despite the ongoing economic turbulence caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

America's real estate meccas aren't what they used to be as COVID-19 revives U.S. mobility.

Mortgage subsidies introduced in Russia this year to stimulate the economy have fueled a surge in apartment prices even after incomes plunged by the most since 1998.