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On the heels of a dismal January existing home sales report, mortgage rates holding steady around 6% for weeks brings brighter news in the form of increased confidence for some home shoppers who’ve been sitting on the sidelines, experts say, although affordability still remains a challenge.  The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), released by…

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Despite the single-digit temperatures and icy sidewalks in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week, the crowd gathered at the DCU Convention Center was fired up. “The people who show up here are the real do-ers.” That’s how Anthony Lamacchia, CEO and owner of Crush It In Real Estate and Lamacchia Realty, described the standing-room-only crowd of more…

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Slow inventory recovery, coupled with major snowstorms across half of the country, put a massive halt on existing-home sales in January, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). NAR’s Existing-Homes Sales report for January found that sales fell 8.4% to a rate of 3.91 million, a large reversal from last…

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