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To: smokingfrog

And the idiot has her hand out the window.


35 posted on 12/13/2011 4:14:17 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich: Abraham Lincoln)
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DRUDGE REPORT
SHOCK: Realtors: We’ve Overcounted Home Sales for Five Years...
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/45659547
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Data on sales of previously owned U.S. homes from 2007 through October this year will be revised down next week because of double counting, indicating a much weaker housing market than previously thought.

The National Association of Realtors said a benchmarking exercise had revealed that some properties were listed more than once, and in some instances, new home sales were also captured.

“All the sales and inventory data that have been reported since January 2007 are being downwardly revised. Sales were weaker than people thought,” NAR spokesman Walter Malony told Reuters.

Early this year, the Realtors group was accused of overcounting existing homes sales, with California-based real estate analysis firm CoreLogic claiming sales could have been overstated by as much as 20 percent.
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36 posted on 12/13/2011 4:18:32 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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