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mikeyouse on March 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first...

You're conflating some figures -- 820k new homes were sold[1] -- along with roughly 5.6 million existing homes[2].

[1] - https://www.housingwire.com/articles/new-home-sales-historic...

[2] - https://cdn.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/ehs-01...

ameister14 on March 17, 2022 [–]

ah, you're right, it was 5 million existing single family, I was pulling from the census and misread. My mistake.

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