ABA DataBank reports home purchase cancellations near record highs
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The ABA's DataBank item records that home purchase cancellations are running near record highs. The note appears on the ABA Banking Journal newsroom alongside a cluster of federal housing actions and rate data, giving mortgage lenders and economists a snapshot of deteriorating conditions in the single-family purchase market.
- The ABA DataBank note, dated October 23, 2026, reports that home purchase cancellations are near record highs.
- The item is tagged to affordable housing and carries no cancellation figures in its published text.
- Separately on the same newsroom, the 15-year fixed-rate mortgage declined to 6.68% from 6.71% the prior week, after seven weeks of gains.
- A Treasury proposed rule would bar investors controlling at least 350 homes from single-family housing, with penalties from $1 million to three times the purchase price.
Executive summary
The American Bankers Association published a DataBank note on October 23, 2026 under the headline that home purchase cancellations are near record highs. The item is tagged to the ABA DataBank series and to affordable housing. The published text available…
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https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2026/10/aba-databank-home-purchase-cancellations-near-record-highs/Read by Regulus 26 Oct 2026 at 13:21 UTC
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