The fall in existing home sales in March serves as a good reminder that more home listings alone are not enough to revive the market. Affordability also has to meaningfully improve which, based on our view that tariff-driven inflation will prevent the Fed from cutting interest rates this year, does not seem likely anytime soon.
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