Tag Archive | "existing home sales"

CoreLogic Blasts NAR for Overstating Home Sales

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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The "most popular measure" of existing home sales, the National Association of Realtors' Existing Home Sales, has increasingly overstated home sales for ten years as measured by five other sources, and reached a level in 2010 that is 15 to 20 percent higher than actual sales, according to data provider  CoreLogic, which made the charges in its US Housing and Market Trends Report.

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August Existing Home Sales Spell Relief

Thursday, September 23, 2010

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The flood of bad news on home sales took a breather in August as sales, inventories and prices all moved in the right direction, though all three metrics have a very long way to go to return to normal levels.

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