Housing markets

Northeastern Minnesota home sales have been on a tear this summer despite a relative scarcity of listings.

U.K. house prices increased by the most in 16 years in August after a tax cut stoked post-lockdown demand, but the revival could prove-short-lived as the government begins to withdraw its pandemic support.

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.

Millennials locked in the lowest mortgage rates on record and kept the summer housing market hot, according to Ellie Mae.

Home prices continue to accelerate in Southwest Florida, but at a slower pace than the state and the nation.

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Driven by robust purchase demand and tight housing supply, housing price growth reached a two-year high in July, according to CoreLogic.

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

The average and median homes sales prices for the Dayton, Ohio, area reached record highs in JUly, which local experts say could produce positive and less than desirable effects for area homeowners.

Tight inventory and unstoppable buyers pushed Bay Area median home prices higher in July, ignoring the economic drag of the pandemic.

The refinance boom kept mortgage loan application defect risk flat, with record-low levels in July, but fraud risk for purchases climbed again, according to First American Financial.

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.

In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, Napa County home sales skyrocketed in July, rising 79.8% from June to July, the California Association of Realtors reported.

Montana real estate is a hot commodity. From east to west, north to south, homes and land are, more often than not, sold within days.

Homebuyers are favoring newly built properties at the highest rate in more than a decade.

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Blackstone Group, which led Wall Street's initial foray into the single-family rental business, is making a new investment in suburban houses at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is pressuring traditional commercial real estate.

Orange County, Calif., home buying rebounded last month to levels above 2019, a buying surge that pushed the median sales price to its sixth record high of 2020.

The number of new housing permits issued in Connecticut communities in July rose 10.2% over the same period in 2019, officials with the state Department of Economic and Community Development said.

Pending home sales rose in July by more than forecast to the highest level since 2005, signaling the housing market’s sharp recovery will continue with borrowing costs to stay low for the foreseeable future.