S&P Dow Jones Indices released the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (based on data through March), which showed that the 10-City and 20-City Composite Indices gained 0.8 percent and 0.9 percent respectively month-over-month.

Sales of new single-family houses came in at an annualized rate of 433,000 units in April, according to the Census Bureau and HUD.

The National Association of Realtors reported that total existing-home sales rose 1.3 percent in April to an annualized rate of 4.65 million units, compared with 4.59 million units in March.

Monetary policy hasn’t been normal for quite a while now, and investors, economists and other observers have been wondering out loud when that’s going to change.

Zillow has released its latest Negative Equity Report, which says that the national negative equity rate was 18.8 percent in the first quarter of 2014 (that is, the percentage of mortgaged owner-occupied homes with negative equity).

The Census Bureau reported that U.S. e-commerce retail sales for the first quarter of 2014, adjusted for seasonal variation, but not for price changes, was $71.2 billion, an increase of 2.8 percent compared with the fourth quarter of 2013.

The Census Bureau reported that private housing starts came in at an annualized rate of 1.072 million units in April, a sizable 13.2 percent upswing from March, when starts were an annualized 947,000 units.

The National Association of Homebuilders reported that builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes weakened a bit in May.