Money Housing market grinding to a halt? High mortgage rates bring sales and listings down October 21, 2022December 8, 2022 Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY Comments Off on Housing market grinding to a halt? High mortgage rates bring sales and listings down The 7% house price decline from June to September was more than double the rate of decline during the same time-period in 2021, when it fell by 3.1%.