Housing markets

It was like a scene from the pre-oil-bust housing boom: A steady stream of prospective buyers trekked through an open house last Saturday in a family neighborhood in northwest Houston. Their cars were parked up and down the block.

The Southern California wildfires are causing additional inventory shortages in what is already a tight housing market, Redfin said.

Supply constraints tempered real estate and title professionals' outlook for the home purchase market over the next year, according to First American Financial Corp.'s fourth quarter Real Estate Sentiment Index.

November sales of existing homes rose more than 5% in metro Milwaukee, even amid a continuing shortage of houses on the market.

Home sales in metro Toledo, Ohio, in November rose 2% over the same month a year ago, but home sale prices fell, according to a report released by the Toledo Regional Association of Realtors.

Baltimore-area home sales and prices continued to climb in November as the inventory of available homes sunk to a 10-year low.

Spokane, Wash., home sales continued at a strong pace in November, with the market benefiting from mild temperatures and the lack of significant snowfall.

Regulatory changes that would put an end to state and local tax deductions could prompt many homeowners in high-tax states to consider relocating, a Redfin survey shows.

Baton Rouge, La., area home sales plunged by 20% in October from the year before, the result of tough comparisons with the sales gains stoked by the August 2016 flood.

The average return on investment for house flippers of single-family homes and condos in the third quarter fell to the lowest average gross flipping ROI since the second quarter of 2015, according to Attom Data Solutions.

The maximum loan amount for Federal Housing Administration mortgages will go up in more than 3,000 counties for 2018.

Sale prices rose for homes bought last month on Hawaii island and Kauai, though transaction volume was mostly lower.

While consumer optimism about the nation's housing market returned to near-record levels in November, it could be tested in December as they digest the impact of tax reform.

Homeowners with mortgages have collectively seen their equity increase 11.8% year-over-year in the third quarter, according to CoreLogic.

Despite rapid price gains and tight inventory nationally, prices in many of the largest housing markets are still below the peaks reached before the Great Recession.

After over five years of steadily rising home prices, Southern California's housing market is "overvalued," real estate data firm CoreLogic reported.

Canada's largest housing market continues to see prices fall amid a widening pool of homes for sale, though there are signs the correction is beginning to lure in some new buyers.

The housing supply shortage will continue into 2018 driving home prices higher next year than some market observers previously predicted.

Home prices in October increased by 7% year-over-year for the second consecutive month, according to CoreLogic.

Colorado's red-hot population growth rate is cooling, and while current residents may celebrate, those who are leaving in increasing numbers say they were driven away by rising housing prices, jobs that don't pay enough and traffic jams.