The National Association of Realtors said that its Pending Home Sales Index dropped to 101.6 in September from a downwardly revised 107.6 in August.

The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index—which has looked something like a seismograph needle jumping up and down in recent years—dipped downward again to end October at 73.2, down from the end of September reading of 77.5.

The Federal Reserve proposed a rule to make too-big-to-fail banks and other deep-pocket entities less likely to fail.

In another indication that home price appreciation isn’t quite as fleet-footed as it has been recently, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said that its House Price Index was up 0.3 percent in August compared with the previous month.

The delayed U.S. employment report for September from the Bureau of Labor Statistics turned in a modest 148,000 new jobs for the month and noted a downtick in the unemployment official rate, from 7.3 percent to 7.2 percent—though that was mostly because of a small decline in workforce participation.

The National Multi Housing Council reported that all four indexes of its October Survey of Apartment Market Conditions dipped below 50 for the first time since July 2009.

Home value specialist Zillow said that the pace of residential price appreciation nationwide slowed down in the third quarter of 2013, and it even turned negative in some markets.

No sooner was the federal government shutdown over on Thursday than estimates of its cost to the U.S. economy were being published.