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Home prices fell at a record pace and the inventory of homes for sales increased as the housing market felt the pinch of tighter lending standards.
The median existing home price fell 5.1 percent from a year ago to $207,800 and the total housing inventory rose 1.9 percent in October to 4.45 million existing homes for sale, a
10.8 month supply at the current sales pace.
The sales pace was the lowest since the realty trade group began tracking both single-family and condo sales jointly in 1999.
Economists polled by Reuters were expecting home resales to fall to a 5.00 million-unit pace from the 5.04 million-unit rate initially reported for September. The September sales pace
was revised to a 5.03 million unit rate.
Lawrence Yun, the NAR chief economist, blamed the poor home selling market on a continuing credit crunch and failing subprime loans that were offered to borrowers despite their
shaky credit.
"The subprime market has essentially disappeared," he said.
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