The National Association of Realtors is out with new data showing that the housing market had a hiccup in April except the area they termed a "beacon of light": the Midwest.
Existing homes sales in the Midwest increased 1.7 percent from March to an annual rate of 1.22 million sales, 13 points higher than April 2014. The median was also up, to $173,000, 11.4 percent higher than the previous year.
Those numbers substantially out-performed the rest of the country, which saw an average decline of 3.3 percent from March.
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