Ignore the usual suspects who will claim that the unexpected 6.1% m/m decline in existing home sales in November is a sign that the housing or wider economic recovery just fell off the rails. They didn't. Indeed, with employment growth accelerating and mortgage rates falling to 18-month lows, we expect existing home sales to rebound soon. For 2015 as a whole, we expect sales to hit 5,200,000.
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