Housing markets

Rates are forecasted to remain at the current low levels for the rest of 2020, driving steady refinance volume.

The company is competing with consumers looking for more space aided by record low mortgage rates.

Housing prices continued to grow in June, maintaining a streak in monthly increases that began in February 2012. But the trend could be reversed in 2021 with the resurgent effects of the coronavirus, according to CoreLogic.

After a floundering start to the summer home-buying season, record-low mortgage rates helped make July one of the best in several years for homebuilders in the Twin Cities metro.

Southern California homebuilders slashed construction plans as coronavirus hammered the economy.

Record-low interest rates allowed homebuyers to purchase $32,000 more house for the same monthly payment compared to last July, boosting affordability to the highest level since 2016.

The year-over-year increase came as homebuying picked up and the company's mortgage lending business boomed.

Florida’s favorable tax laws have long been a draw for high-net-worth individuals, but the pandemic’s disruptions — to work, school, public safety and northern states’ budgets — have increased the allure, pushing many of the wealthiest to finally make good on aspirations to relocate.

With low inventory and coronavirus limiting accessibility, nearly half of shoppers made offers sight-unseen in June, according to Redfin.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused home sales to fall this year in more than two-thirds of Dallas-area neighborhoods.

Wyoming's average home price has risen nearly 10% since early last year, marking the fastest rate of increase in the state's real estate valuations since the third quarter of 2007.

Home sales in Alabama surged in June as buyers emerged from the coronavirus lockdown ready to take advantage of low interest rates.

Some real estate agents in the Daytona Beach, Fla., area have been reporting an increase in bidding wars for homes because of the low inventory.

Even amid a global pandemic — and by all accounts spurred by it — Palm Beach, Fla., single-family property sales surged during the second quarter, according to a new round of real estate reports.

Real estate agents say they are seeing more out-of-state homebuyers looking to move to Maine, but so far in 2020, there's been no surge of people from away actually buying homes in the state.

But refis bring overall mortgage application fraud risk back to its record low, First American said.

Having more houses on the market than in June 2019 had the metro area out of step with the nation as a whole, the Oklahoma City Realtors said.

Black homeownership grew for the fourth quarter in a row, hitting its largest percentage since 2004 despite disproportionate impacts of the coronavirus.

Born from the burgeoning real estate market that preceded the Great Recession, flipping homes has become a national fascination over the past two decades.

An index of pending home sales exceeded forecasts in June as borrowing costs fell, adding to evidence that the housing market is the bright spot in an economy stunted by COVID-19.