Housing markets

Other moves it is undertaking include business divestitures and increased dividends while defending against a takeover attempt.

After two months of steep drops, home sales leveled off in the Sarasota-Manatee, Fla., region in June.

Mortgage rates rose for the first time in six weeks, going back the above the 3% mark, as spreads to the 10-year Treasury yield widened again, according to Freddie Mac.

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COVID-19 could not stop the upward pressure on home prices in San Diego County which reached a new high of $600,250 in June.

Home sale prices are up while sales numbers are way down in metro Detroit's real estate market, which has yet to experience any collapse in values from the coronavirus-caused recession.

The new normal created by the events so far in 2020 could make this the best year ever for lenders.

Sales of previously owned homes rose in June for the first time in four months as the economy reopened more broadly from coronavirus-related shutdowns and buyers took advantage of record-low mortgage rates.

COVID-19 continues to upend the Massachusetts residential real estate market as sales of both single-family homes and condos have crashed roughly 23% and 30%, respectively, this June compared with last.

Santa Fe County had the highest median home sales price in the state in June, and New Mexico had its highest statewide median sales price of $231,000 since the New Mexico Association of Realtors started keeping statistics in 2008.

Despite concerns with the COVID-19 pandemic, the area real estate market saw activity in June that was consistent with June 2019.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency will extend the same GSE benchmarks of the past three years into 2021.

After taking a deep dive in March and April due to the pandemic, housing sales throughout the Twin Cities rebounded in May, coming back strong to even make up lost ground.

The median price for detached homes in Marin County, Calif., rose 5.3% in June over the prior year, marking the first solid gain since the coronavirus arrested the market.

The South Florida luxury housing market suffered headwinds in the second quarter. The number of sales dropped up to 55.6% year-over-year in one neighborhood.

Home construction starts rose 17% in June, with builders ramping up production as lockdowns eased.

Buyers in metro Denver who expected to have an easier time snagging a discounted home given all the economic turmoil may need to recalculate.

The surge of COVID-19 cases in much of the nation put a hold on reopening the economy, adding risk to the housing market, First American said.

Homebuilder outlook improved in July and is back at pre-pandemic levels as the housing market continued to lure buyers looking for more space and attracted by record-low interest rates.

After two months of declines in the coronavirus pandemic, the Boise, Idaho, area housing market rebounded in June with a 3.4% increase in homes sold compared with June 2019.