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In Case You Were Feeling Optimistic Today…

If you’re feeling optimistic right now, thinking that the real estate market will be rebounding soon based on the past couple of months of strong performance, well, I urge you to skip this post.  No need to spoil a perfectly good mood with gloom, especially on such a beautiful summer day as today.

As I’m not an economist, despite looking very much like one, I’m just going to share a few things I’ve read in the past couple of days that make me a wee bit jittery.  Back in May, I wrote that there were some worrisome signs for the housing market.  These signs don’t make me any more hopeful.

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