
Home Sales, Listings Plunge Over 20% in September—Most on Record Aside From Pandemic Start
Both buyers and sellers retreated in September as surging mortgage rates made moving more expensive. Still, home prices rose 8% year over year due to
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Both buyers and sellers retreated in September as surging mortgage rates made moving more expensive. Still, home prices rose 8% year over year due to

Rents rose 9% year over year in September—the first single-digit increase in a year and a marked slowdown from 18% growth in March. Inflation and

62% of people who plan to buy or sell a home in the next year are reluctant to relocate to a place at risk of

A house hunter looking for a $500,000 home saw their potential total mortgage payment fall by $64,000 from July to August, and then jump by

Sun Belt cities including Phoenix, Tampa and Las Vegas attracted scores of house hunters during the pandemic, driving up home prices. Now their housing markets

The decline was roughly twice as severe in the Bay Area. High-end homebuyers are backing off as rising interest rates, inflation, a tepid stock market

Both buyers and sellers retreated in September as surging mortgage rates made moving more expensive. Still, home prices rose 8% year over year due to

Rents rose 9% year over year in September—the first single-digit increase in a year and a marked slowdown from 18% growth in March. Inflation and

62% of people who plan to buy or sell a home in the next year are reluctant to relocate to a place at risk of

A house hunter looking for a $500,000 home saw their potential total mortgage payment fall by $64,000 from July to August, and then jump by

Sun Belt cities including Phoenix, Tampa and Las Vegas attracted scores of house hunters during the pandemic, driving up home prices. Now their housing markets

The decline was roughly twice as severe in the Bay Area. High-end homebuyers are backing off as rising interest rates, inflation, a tepid stock market