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US Home-Price Growth Slows Slightly as Buyers Gain More Leverage

Homes in a residential neighborhood in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Home-price growth in the US slowed in October as buyers gained more bargaining power.

A national gauge of prices rose 3.6% from a year earlier, according to data from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller. That was smaller than the 3.9% annual increase in September.