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We see some more weakness in the housing market again today, indicating that the rough times are still not close to coming to an end anytime soon. The National Association of Realtors announced today that existing home sales fell by more than expected during the month of April.

According to today's report, existing home sales fell by 2.6%, which puts us at the lowest annual sales rate in the last four years at 5.99 million units. In reaction to the fall in home sales, we are also given data that the average price for home sales dropped in the month. This represents the ninth straight month that home prices have dropped.

Earlier this month I wrote about a release from the NAR that predicted that 2007 had the possibility of being the first year in history to show a drop in home prices. I would have to agree that we are well on our way for the first annual drop in prices. The current nine month streak of falling prices is the longest streak in history and right now no one is expecting to see this trend reverse in the near future.

April's median home price fell to $220,900 which is down 0.8% from the same month last year. According to the report earlier this month from the NAR, they are expecting that the average price for homes sold to fall down to $219,800 by the close of this year.

Michael Fowlkes has worked as a stock trader for seven years and spent the last two years working as an analyst for the online investment advisory service Investor'sObserver.

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