Mortgage rates remain high, but not high enough to bring down home costs. It’s enough to cause more buyers to back out of purchase contracts than at any point in at least six years.
Nationally, 17% of homes under contract fell through in October, according to Redfin, which called that rate the highest since it began tracking the statistic in 2017.
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