Real estate

Sonoma County's fire-ravaged housing market last month posted the most sales for November in 13 years, even as the median price rose slightly to a new record high.

The council is exploring legislation to collect around $492 million in delinquent real estate taxes that could aid the city’s school district.

The median down payment for single-family homes purchased with financing has reached a new high in the third quarter, according to Attom Data Solutions.

It was like a scene from the pre-oil-bust housing boom: A steady stream of prospective buyers trekked through an open house last Saturday in a family neighborhood in northwest Houston. Their cars were parked up and down the block.

The Southern California wildfires are causing additional inventory shortages in what is already a tight housing market, Redfin said.

Supply constraints tempered real estate and title professionals' outlook for the home purchase market over the next year, according to First American Financial Corp.'s fourth quarter Real Estate Sentiment Index.

November sales of existing homes rose more than 5% in metro Milwaukee, even amid a continuing shortage of houses on the market.

Home sales in metro Toledo, Ohio, in November rose 2% over the same month a year ago, but home sale prices fell, according to a report released by the Toledo Regional Association of Realtors.

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Baltimore-area home sales and prices continued to climb in November as the inventory of available homes sunk to a 10-year low.