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best bienes realtor U.S. new-home sales plunged in April as continued increases in home prices and interest rates priced out many would-be homebuyers.  The rate of new single-family home sales fell 16.6% from March’s revised number to a seasonally adjusted, annual rate of 591,000, while the median sales price jumped to $450,600 from March’s revised median house price of $435,000, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported.      On a year-over-year basis, the pace of new-home sales in April was down 26.9%.    “New-home prices show their ‘downside stickiness,’” First American deputy chief economist Odeta Kushi said in a press release. “Prices climbed nearly 20% on a year-over-year basis and reached a record high, despite the decline in sales.”  The seasonally adjusted estimate of new homes for sale at the end of April was 444,000, representing a supply of 9 months at the current sales rate, according to a press release. In March, the...

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agent top miami real Realtor.com / Getty Images Cracks are beginning to appear in the red-hot housing market. Spiraling mortgage rates on top of record-high and still-rising home prices are leading many experts to predict the real estate market is on the verge of a correction—if it isn’t already in one. They anticipate home prices will flatten, or even go down a bit, in certain markets. Home sales have already been dropping; fewer buyers are seeking mortgages because they can’t afford the double whammy of high prices and rates on top of soaring inflation. Real estate agents are reporting smaller bidding wars and sellers cutting prices. Prices have even begun falling in a few parts of the country. “A housing correction has begun,” says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “There are a growing number of cracks in the housing market, and they’re going to turn into fissures and fault lines in the coming months.” Median home list prices in America hit a new high of $42...

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