Sales of previously occupied US homes accelerated in September as declining mortgage rates and a pickup in available properties on the market encouraged home shoppers.
Existing home sales rose 1.5% last month from August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.06 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.
That’s the fastest sales pace since February.
Existing home sales rose 1.5% last month from August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.06 million units. That’s the fastest sales pace since February. Christopher Sadowski
Sales jumped 4.1% compared with September last year.
The latest sales figure came in slightly below the roughly 4.07 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet.
The national median sales price climbed 2.1% in Septemb