Home price growth continued to slow in August as buyers expressed trepidation over the economy, despite a healthy supply of inventory and lower mortgage rates, the FHFA and S&P Dow Jones Indices reported.
Source: Inman News
‘Signs of deceleration’ bedevil US home prices
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