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Pending Home Sales Slip and the West Is the Worst | REJ Daily 657

October 20, 2026 · 17:48

Ed Parcaut and Mike Kelly cover pending home sales dropping in every region with the West the worst, a housing starts miss, oil at a five-month high and a pirate ship house in Utah. In this episode: • Local check: Stanislaus County listings, pendings and closings up from yesterday (the MLS screen shown on air) • Why compliance watches what we say about sellers helping buy down a rate, and why a disclosure makes it better • Markets: bonds caught a flight to safety on AI jitters, and the 10-year was lower near 5.09% (CNBC, Oct 20, 2026: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/US10Y) • Oil: Brent hit a five-month high (CNBC, Oct 20, 2026), with December Bre