Most of the 3.8% m/m fall in existing home sales in May, to a six-month low of 4.8m from 5.0m in April, was probably due to the unusually severe weather. Nevertheless, the data are still overestimating the level of sales by up to 20% and a chronic lack of demand will mean there probably won't be a housing recovery to talk of until 2014.
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