Cash buyers have been a key support to housing demand over the past year. But they may have been a less important driver of the recovery in sales than is sometimes suggested. Moreover, if January’s weak mortgage lending data are not just a blip, but a sign of fading confidence in the recovery, then the support from cash buyers to housing market activity may well fade as we go through 2010.
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