According to Redfin, U.S. home sales fell 1.7% month over month in May 2024 on a seasonally adjusted basis and dropped 2.9% from a year earlier. There have been just two months in the past decade with fewer home sales: October 2023, when mortgage rates jumped to a 23-year high, and May 2020, when the onset of the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt and home sales to a record low. "Buyers today...