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Here Comes Existing Home Sales...

Mamta Badkar   

Here Comes Existing Home Sales...
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Existing home sales for May are out at 10 a.m. ET.

Economists polled by Bloomberg are looking for existing home sales to rise 1.9% month-over-month (MoM) to an annualized pace of 4.74 million units.

This compares to a 1.3% rise to an annualized pace of 4.65 million units in April.

One of the key numbers we'll be watching is the supply of existing home sales - since it's being argued that housing supply has held back the housing recovery.

"We see little prospect that the uptick in April and May marks the start of a sustained, strong rebound," Ian Shepherdson at Pantheon Macroeconomics wrote in a note ahead of the release.

He argues that this is because applications for new mortgages are flat or at a low levels and because housing affordability has seen its "biggest deterioration in 32 years."

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