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Mortgage Analysts Look Into Their Crystal Balls and Don’t Like What They See
October 9, 2018
Paul Muolo
Analyst Henry Coffey: “It is worth noting, given expected home price appreciation, that a flat mortgage market should translate into a 4 percent or greater decline in actual mortgage unit count.”
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