Housing markets

The Southern California housing market is showing signs of heating up following a coronavirus-induced slump.

After steep year-over-year declines in home sales in April and May, Tampa Bay's housing market showed signs of a strong rebound in June from pandemic-induced sluggishness, according to new figures released by Florida Realtors.

CoreLogic said more refinancings and fewer investor purchase mortgages drove its index down to a level last reached in the third quarter of 2010.

New-home sales in the U.S. increased to an almost 13-year high in June, fueled by record-low borrowing costs and adding to evidence that residential real estate is a bright spot for the economy.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has hammered other areas of the Albuquerque, N.M., economy, it's becoming clear that it hasn't stopped residential real estate momentum.

Google has allocated $115 million out of a $250 million investment fund for affordable housing projects in the Bay Area.

The returns on investment for homes sold in the second quarter of 2020 reached the highest level since the housing bubble collapsed, according to Attom Data Solutions.

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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.