Market for Previously Owned Homes Reflects Weak Recovery

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NEW YORK - Home prices in many parts of the country scream bargain, and mortgage rates haven't been this low for decades. So why are houses across the nation sitting on the market for so long?

Sales of previously occupied homes in the United States fell 27 percent in July, the weakest showing in 15 years, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday. It was the largest drop in the four decades that records have been kept.

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Market for Previously Owned Homes Reflects Weak Recovery

Potential buyers are hesitating because they think home prices still have further to fall. Potential sellers - those with the stomach to put their homes on the market at all, anyway - are reluctant to lower t...

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