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Industry Analyst Ed Pinto vs. NAR – Which Party is Right on First-Time Homebuyers?
December 4, 2015
Carisa Chappell
Edward Pinto, former chief credit officer of Fannie Mae who now studies housing trends for AEI, disputes NAR’s data and describes the first-time buyer market as “booming.”
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