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By Roy Burden
 As anticipated, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported a decline in existing house gross sales on the finish of 2009, as first time consumers rushed to beat the tax credit score deadline and close their transactions by November 30. Though Existing home gross sales fell by 16.7 p.c in December, sales remained brisk sufficient to break the 5 million unit mark, bringing total the variety of existing houses gross sales as much as 5,156,000 for all of 2009. The 2009 gross sales figures had been almost 5 % greater than the yr earlier than, creating first yr-over-year sales gain since 2005.
Chief NAR economist Lawrence Yun remains cautiously optimistic about the national housing market. "It's significant that residence sales stay above yr-in the past levels, however the market goes by a period of swings driven by the tax credit score," he said. 'We'll doubtless have another surge within the spring as dwelling patrons reap the benefits of the extended and expanded tax credit. By early summer time the general market should benefit from more balanced inventory, and gross sales are on track to rise |
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