Housing markets

With interest rates expected to stay low while wages and the overall economy grow in conjunction, Fannie Mae again boosted its single-family mortgage origination outlook for 2019, 2020 and 2021.

The median price paid for an existing, single-family home in the Bay Area fell in 2019 for the first full year since 2011, according to the California Association of Realtors.

The agency is sending a strong message that it won't rush to end an exemption for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while also signaling longer-term changes that will affect all lenders.

The inventory of homes for sale is at a seven-year low and that is likely to continue to shrink in the coming months, a Zillow report said.

U.S. developers are moving into the U.K.'s rapidly expanding market for rental housing, including student dorms and senior-living facilities.

Sales of single-family houses in the Greater Hartford area recorded a lackluster 2019, barely gaining any ground over the previous year.

Home sellers in Albuquerque experienced some fortune in 2019 with increased home prices and increased sales across multiple categories, according to the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors.

Foreclosures in San Diego County have hit record lows, following a national trend of better fortunes for homeowners coming out of the Great Recession.

The rate of home sales reached a 33-month peak in December, swinging the pendulum of supply and demand, and pushing value appreciation to a 19-month high, according to Redfin.

Southern Maine's superheated real estate market is presenting challenges to first-time homebuyers and expanding businesses, but shows no signs of cooling off.

As expected, 2019 was another banner year for the Austin-area housing market.

The U.K. housing market perked up in December as Boris Johnson's commanding election win helped push up sales and expectations for price gains.

Groundbreakings on new homes surged in December to a 13-year high, giving the housing market momentum heading into the new year amid low mortgage rates, solid job growth and optimistic buyers and builders.

Canadian real estate is increasingly becoming a seller's market as supply shrinks to decade lows, raising the prospect of rising prices and the re-emergence of froth in some major cities.

Home sales in metro Baton Rouge, La., were 2.2% higher in 2019 than the year before, thanks to a year-end push.

Homebuilder sentiment posted the highest back-to-back readings since 1999, as developers saw a surge in prospective buyers and a bump in the sales outlook.

Loan applications to purchase newly constructed homes rose over one-third annually during December as new residential construction recovered, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Mortgage rates for the most part were stable this past week as the markets looked warily at economic and geopolitical events, according to Freddie Mac.

With home price appreciation decelerating, the top end of the marketplace appears to be taking the biggest hit, according to Zillow.

The Lehigh Valley ended the year 2019 with a record: The lowest monthly supply of housing the local Realtors' association has ever recorded.