The drop in the pending home sales numbers for September suggests that the immediate outlook for existing home sales is weak. We have therefore revised down our whole-year forecasts for 2013. The weaker starting point also means that 2014 will come in lower than we had previously expected. But these new forecasts still fit the picture of a housing recovery which is slowing, not reversing.
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