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By Craig Johnson

How Home Buying Is Different Right Now

With interest rates that previous generations could only dream of and a low housing supply, the market is red-hot despite the chill over the rest of the economy.

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A once-in-a-lifetime global crisis has a way of rewriting normal life, from small adjustments to big reorganizations, from temporary changes to long-lasting shifts. Most of us have changed how we work, socialize, shop, enjoy family, and more. Six months into the pandemic, it is also clear that home buying has changed. Buying a home in 2020 is uniqu...
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