For Jill Comfort, a broker who owns Comfort Realty in Maricopa, Arizona, 2024 has been a slow year.

“The majority of that has to do with interest rates,” Comfort told USA TODAY. “You’ve got a lot of people that are first-time buyers struggling to get into the market. High interest rates are just making their payments go way higher. A lot of people are opting to wait.”

 

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