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US home sales fall to lowest level since 2010 as mortgage rates soar

Headline via Financial Times · first report 12 Nov, 20:31 IST, latest 13 Nov, 00:14 IST

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4 independent news organisations have reported this story. The first report we saw came from MarketWatch at 12 Nov, 20:31 IST; the latest is from NPR at 13 Nov, 00:14 IST. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details: read each report through the links below.

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First report12 Nov, 20:31 IST
Latest report13 Nov, 00:14 IST
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Home sales fell in October to a 16-year low as buyers bolted from the housing market in the face of 7% mortgage rates.
Higher borrowing costs deepen housing market slump as interest rates weigh on transactions
The sale of previously owned homes dropped 5.5 percent in October, the lowest level since August 2010.
Existing homes sales in October declined 8.8% from a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Quoted from the newsrooms’ own feeds, with their names and links. Rational Times has not independently confirmed the details.

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