Housing markets

The widespread protests that have followed George Floyd's death are, in part, a response to long-standing inequities in the Black community that the coronavirus has only exacerbated. Here's how Donnell Williams, president of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, thinks the mortgage market can respond.

The coronavirus pandemic brought more attention to the affordable housing issue and illuminated already vulnerable, low-income populations.

Home sales in the Baltimore area plummeted in May, the steepest drop in a decade amid the pandemic, but record-low mortgage rates are pushing buyers into the housing market.

A lack of inventory and low interest rates helped keep Minnesota home sale prices rising as pending sales dropped in May, according to Minnesota Realtors.

Borrowers gained over $6 trillion in home equity since the Great Recession ended and the relative health of the housing market should stave off a coronavirus-induced collapse, according to CoreLogic.

Home sales in the San Antonio area plunged 20% in May, the market's worst stretch since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.

Home sales in New Hampshire cratered in May thanks to fewer homes on the market and more caution by sellers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Now the shutdown has stretched into mid-June, effectively canceling the long-anticipated Memorial Day listings bonanza.

The coronavirus pandemic is driving rents down in San Francisco and across the region, reshaping a housing market that for the past decade has generated enormous profits for residential developers while displacing tens of thousands of workers from the inner Bay Area.

Home sale prices in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, continued their usual spring rise through May, though the number of sales were down amid the coronavirus crisis.

Southern California housing markets are rebounding off what arguably was the worst April in the history books.

Sales of single-family homes and condominiums on Oahu tanked in May as owners and buyers elected to practice social distancing.

After bottoming out at a 10-year low in April, consumer sentiment for home buying rebounded in May, according to Fannie Mae.

A house in Cornwall, N.Y., goes on the market and has eight buyers check it out in one day. Two promptly offer the full price of $305,000, which the winning bidder later upped to $340,000.

Framework Homeownership CEO Danielle Samalin helped support consumer organizations after the housing bubble burst. Now she’s using that experience to help borrowers and homebuyers navigate new challenges.

When the coronavirus pandemic began in earnest in March, the Las Vegas real estate market was able to hold steady, thanks in part to an abundance of sales already in the pipeline.

With the impacts of the coronavirus in full bore, housing market experts predict home prices to fall in 2020.

After months of hiding out from the coronavirus, North Texas homebuyers are heading out to hunt for properties.

Eager buyers and reluctant sellers pushed Bay Area homes prices higher again in April, fueling quick sales and a robust market despite coronavirus restrictions.

Virginia's housing market has demonstrated greater resiliency than many housing markets across the country even though home sales have slowed across much of the state as a result of COVID-19.