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Finally, Q2 industrial resale of $234 million declined 10% year on year. And for fiscal '24, we now expect industrial resale to be down double-digit percentage year on year, compared to our prior guidance for high single-digit decline. Vivek Arya -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thanks for taking my question.
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Finally, Q3 industrial resales of $164 million declined 31% year on year. We believe we are approaching bottom in Q3 as Q4 resales are expected to recover sequentially. Year on year, Q4 industrial resales will still be down approximately 20%. And our first question will come from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America.
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Measure on resales, Q4 industrial resales of $173 million declined 27% year on year. Operator And one moment for our next question, and that will come from the line of Ross Seymore with Deutsche Bank. That will come from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America. We only expect a recovery in the second half of 2025.
First, on the resale market, I'm curious some of your thoughts there. And when I think about the spec entry-level model, I think you guys have really benefited from the tight resale market over the last few years. Inventories, we have certainly seen more inventory in the market today on the resale side than we have in the past.
Four, by driving volume, we gained advantaged insights into and refined the workings of our strategic land banks. The flow of volume through the land banking relationships that define our current approach to land acquisition was invaluable. Situated today with a 9.6% homebuilding debt-to-total cap ratio with $6.3 billion a year.
Within our Cloud and Infrastructure business, we recently entered into a long-term IBM mainframe-managed service agreement with First Horizon Bank for ongoing management and support. While resale revenues performed as expected, down 28% year over year, services revenue declined 8% helped by higher-than-anticipated in-quarter volumes.
And finally, Q1 industrial resales of $215 million declined 6% year on year. In fiscal '24, we continue to expand industrial resales to be down high single digits year upon year. Our next question comes from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America Securities. Vivek Arya -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Thank you.
Prior to IBM, Howard was the CTO of Bank of America, which gives him a unique perspective of what customers want in an IT service provider. year-to-year decline, 160 basis points came from a reduced level of low-margin resale revenues, which was in line with our expectations. The modern workplace business declined 9% year to year.
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Operator Your next question is coming from Joe Ahlersmeyer with Deutsche Bank. Joe Ahlersmeyer -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Hey. Joe Ahlersmeyer -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst That's all very helpful. Joe Ahlersmeyer -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst All right. Obviously, resale inventory was incredibly tight.
year to year organically and services revenue was down approximately 7% and resale fell approximately 16%. 3Q resale was down approximately 2%, improving from steeper declines in recent quarters, and we continue to be selective on our resale opportunities based on deal economics. The book-to-bill ratio of 1.51 Please go ahead.
And in markets where there's pressure on insurance, we see a consistent and relatively stable insurance premiums, which are our competitive advantage against the resale market. Somewhat a necessity given the supply chain, somewhat out of -- that's where the demand was given the tight resale market. John Lovallo -- Analyst Understood.
Our third strategy is to sharpen our attention on land and land acquisitions, as well as on land and land bank strategy. Tight inventory levels in the resale and new home market propelled demand for available new homes, and we offered a combination of attractive pricing and compelling mortgage rate programs to capture that demand.
Industrial resales were 962 million. In fiscal '24, we expect industrial resales to be down low single digits year on year. Questions & Answers: Operator [Operator instructions] Our first question will come from the line of Vivek Arya with Bank of America. And that will come from the line of Ross Seymore with Deutsche Bank.
Our third strategy has been to sharpen our attention on land and land acquisition, as well as land and land bank strategies. In our third quarter, we continue to effectively work with our strategic land and land bank partners when they purchase land on our behalf and then deliver just-in-time finished home sites to a homebuilding machine.
With this program, we are creating the foundation that we'll leverage as we begin to activate the right side of our flywheel and enable customer lifetime value through services, notably beginning with trade-in and resales. And then secondly, can you maybe give us a little bit more color on your trading and resale initiative?
People don't like to switch banks and yet a lot of people are choosing SoFi. Jason Moser: Well, I think in this case, when you look at SoFi, I think you made a great point there, but people don't like to switch banks. They're focused on developing new relationships with folks that are just coming into needing a banking relationship.
Our performance has kept the Children's Place brands in the leadership position on social media, representing close to 50% of total social impressions among our children apparel resale competitive set. So to get that totally behind us and agreed as part of that to give the bank, obviously, some extra reporting.
The next question is coming from Joe Ahlersmeyer from Deutsche Bank. Joe Ahlersmeyer -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Thanks, and good quarter, guys. Joe Ahlersmeyer -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst I wanted to follow up on the community count. Joe Ahlersmeyer -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Makes sense. Joe, your line is live.
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The fundamentals of the housing market are strong, supported by continued household formations, years of underproduction and limited supply of resale homes. Relative to our peer group who has really went all in on land banking, land banking is expensive. We believe this is a near-term dynamic and not a new normal.
And lastly, the resale home market remains tight as existing buyers are hesitant to leave their low rate mortgages, which limits available inventory and helps to increase new home demand. Operator Our next question comes from Joe Ahlersmeyer with Deutsche Bank. Joe Ahlersmeyer -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst Thanks very much.
At a high level, the housing market remains healthy with demand supported by strong fundamentals, including household formations and migration trends, years of underproduction and a lock-in effect limiting the supply of resale homes. Additionally, we're witnessing a resilient labor market with historically low unemployment.
As we previously discussed, two of the largest population cohorts, the millennials and recently Gen Zs are having life events lean to increased levels of need-based housing that currently cannot be met by the constrained resale of home supply in the market. While that's still true, we wanted to clarify that we're not opposed to land banking.
And today, it's about taking market share from single families -- single-family market because it's so upside down on a cost to rent perspective and lack of inventory in the resale market. And I think that banks are definitely -- we hear a lot of anecdotal information about banks working very well with their borrowers today.
And we had a number of core financial management expansions across our HCM customer base, including Ally Financial, Huntington Bank, Intermountain Health, and Stewart Title Guaranty. And you've got a slew of new products, you've got an expanded partnership strategy, you've got resale -- reseller partnership strategy as well.
We sell our produce gas and basin, and we manage the transport obligation by purchasing third-party gas in basin for resale on the Gulf Coast. Operator instructions] Our first question will come from the line of Doug Leggate with Bank of America. Doug Leggate -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Gosh. Good morning, guys.
Operator The next question comes from Nitin Bansal of Bank of America. Nitin Bansal -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst Hi. When you have this much mortgage interest rate volatility and you're guaranteeing people loans for 30 years, you're going to have a long-term problem with resale inventory. Please go ahead.
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