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Why are home sales plunging?
Home sales fell 27 percent nationwide from a month earlier, this according to numbers from the National Association of Realtors. This was a much bigger drop than expected from the expiration of the federal tax credit. What does it mean? Is the economy far worse than we think? What’s going on psychologically—are people just terrified to sell their homes? What’s it like in the trenches of the housing market? And are we seeing a fundamental shift in how we value home ownership as a nation?
Home sales fell 27 percent nationwide from a month earlier, this according to numbers from the National Association of Realtors. This was a much bigger drop than expected from the expiration of the federal tax credit. What does it mean? Is the economy far worse than we think? What’s going on psychologically—are people just terrified to sell their homes? What’s it like in the trenches of the housing market? And are we seeing a fundamental shift in how we value home ownership as a nation?
Guests:
Richard Green, Director, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate
Steve Goddard, President of the California Association of Realtors