Winter tends to see the annual spike in people pulling homes off the market, responding to lower demand in the cold months, and potentially taking the time to reconsider the sale price or make improvements ahead of a new listing. CoreLogic tells us that 73,000 homes were pulled from sale in December, the single highest number in a given month going back to December 2015 and up 64 percent from December of 2023. To put it in perspective, it means that about a tenth of the properties on the market were yanked from sale.
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