According to Redfin, U.S. homes are selling at the slowest pace since the pandemic's onset in early 2020, as high mortgage rates and elevated home prices persist.
The construction industry had 249,000 job openings as of the last day of October, according to an analysis by Associated Builders and Contractors based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS).
New data from the Mortgage Bankers Association's Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey shows that mortgage applications rose by 6.3% for the week ending November 22, 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.