This week, the Federal Reserve reduced its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point, marking the third consecutive cut and signaling a cautious outlook for future reductions.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that rising mortgage rates and persistent affordability challenges kept many potential homebuyers on the sidelines in October 2024.
According to the latest Commercial Delinquency Report from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), U.S. commercial mortgage delinquencies rose in the second quarter of 2024.
Based on ATTOM's newly released third-quarter 2024 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report, almost 1.4 million (1,357,423) residential properties in the United States are vacant. That figure represents 1.3 percent, or one in 76 homes, across the nation - roughly the same as in the second quarter of this year.