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Strengthening Sales

By Econ70 | 07/23/2014

While existing home sales fell 2.3% in 6/14 to 5.04 million from 5.16 million a year earlier, don’t worry. Sales are at their highest level in eight months, and more importantly distressed sales are down from 15% of all sales in 6/13 to 11% of sales in 6/14. As a result, the number of non-distressed…

Housing Holds

By Econ70 | 03/26/2014

While many fret that existing housing sales have recently been slumping, the angst is misplaced. Since early last year sales have declined 7%, but distressed sales as a percentage of all sales have fallen from 25% of sales to just 15%, a drop of 10 percentage points, more than the 7% drop in sales. Thus,…