Foreclosures pushing house prices lower

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Business  Thu, 01/26/2012 - 06:49

Foreclosure-related properties, which made up roughly one in five home sales in the third quarter of last year, sold for an average 34 percent less than homes that were not ‘distressed sales,’ new data show.


 

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