A report from Curbed on Texas. "Candy Evans, a Dallas real estate writer who runs a local site called CandysDirt.com, says the naysayers, including the author of a recent Wall Street Journal piece identifying Dallas real estate as a 'canary in the coal mine,' are overtly negative. 'The north part of the Metroplex [the Dallas-Fort Worth area] is where you have open land and crappy developments having a tough time selling,' says Evans. 'Our city was built on cheap land, and that land is simply getting more scarce.'"

From KDVR in Colorado. "For the first time in seven years, the price of a home in the Denver metro area dropped year-over-year, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. Experts say this could be due to the fact that a year ago there were only 3,015 active single-family home listings in February while this year there were a thousand more listings - up 36 percent."

"'For nearly a decade buyers have been overpaying because that's what the market has dictated,' said Denver real estate expert Clay Short. 'Now it looks like it has kinda turned a corner, at least the buyers hope so.'"

From Globe St on California. "At the end of 2018, home sales in California fell, according to Pacific Union, particularly in the San Francisco and Los Angeles markets. Starting in April 2018, home sales in Los Angeles fell dramatically, and in January 2019, they were down 18% year-over-year. In San Francisco, home sales fell during the same period, down 16% as of January 2019."

"The decrease in home sales has also triggered falling housing prices in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. This could lead to fewer owners willing to bring homes to market, exacerbating the housing shortage. However, in the early months of the year, for-sale home inventory has increased."

"'While inventory of homes of sales has jumped in recent months, it’s still from a very low base so we are still in very undersupplied market,' says Selma Hepp, chief economist at Pacific Union . 'However, I think sellers are seeing their opportunity to sell at the peak of price growth. If they don’t get the price they want, they may pull out their off them market. However, based on recent inventory numbers, I think sellers are seeing this period as a great opportunity to sell.'"

The Seattle Times in Washington. "Is this decade’s unprecedented Seattle boom in its final throes? Since 2010, Seattle has been the fastest-growing big city in the U.S., and the cost of living here has risen more rapidly than anywhere else. But we’re beginning to see signs of change."

"Real-estate prices in King County dropped by more than $100,000 since last spring (though they recouped some of that loss with a strong February), and the number of homes sitting unsold has more than doubled in the past year."

"For the second consecutive year, the number of driver’s licenses issued to new King County residents from out of state declined, according to records from the Washington Department of Licensing. It’s starting to look like 2016 was peak boom. That year, more than 76,000 licenses were issued to folks moving to the county from somewhere else in the U.S. or from another country."

From Inside NOVA on Virginia. "Homes that sold in Arlington in February had the highest per-square-foot value across Northern Virginia, although Arlington and most other local jurisdictions posted declines from a year before, according to new data."

"Arlington’s per-square-foot sales price was, on average, down 15 percent from the $472 recorded in February 2018. And the community wasn’t alone; declines were reported in may localities."

"Falls Church saw its average per-square-foot cost decline 2.8 percent to $378. Alexandria’s per-square-foot cost declined 9.9 percent to $365. Fairfax County’s per-square-foot cost dropped 9.7 percent to $278. Loudoun County’s per-square-foot cost was down 10.4 percent to $198. Prince William County’s per-square-foot cost dropped a sizable 21.4 percent to $165. Stafford County’s per-square-foot cost was down 15 percent to $142."

"Across the Mid-Atlantic as a whole, the average per-square-foot cost of $206 for residential properties that sold in February was down 11.2 percent from $232, based on ShowingTime data. The highest-priced major jurisdiction was the District of Columbia at $483, down 5.7 percent from $512 a year before."

From the Oregonian. "Lawmakers have proposed eliminating the state’s piece of the popular mortgage interest deduction for second homes and reducing it for high earners. James Marshall, who owns a home and several rental properties in Marion County, told lawmakers they would be taking away one of few tax benefits available to 'common Americans.'"

"'To change this midstream for all of us who made the decision to purchase based on the tax advantage that was available ... would be devastating to me personally and would probably cause me to sell my investment properties and perhaps my principle residence as well,' he said."