With the economic slowdown, people are staying closer to home. People are moving less than at anytime since 1962. Even immigration has slowed down.
The combination of job loss, lack of equity in their present property values, and just plain fear is stopping the market dead in their tracks.
 
 
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Why Are Home Sales Slow? People Have Stopped Moving
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