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    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 8:00AM 11/16/2009
    The good news: National Association of Realtors chief economist Lawrence Yun is predicting that home prices will rise 4% in 2010. The bad news: Lawrence Yun has never been right about anything in his entire life, ever. Yun predicted that sales volume will also rise about 14%. I'm definitely not...

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 4:00PM 10/23/2009
    September homes sales jumped 9.4% to the highest level in two years, according to the National Association of Realtors, as home buyers took advantage of low prices to qualify for the first-time home buyer tax credit which is scheduled to expire in December -- although it seems likely to be extended...

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 11:00AM 1/27/2009
    With the housing bubble that the National Association of Realtors spent years denying the existence of crashing down, the association's Chief Economist is now calling on Congress to prop it back up.In a column titled We Need a "Jolt" Now, Yun essentially makes the case that interest rate cuts, tax...

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 3:00PM 3/21/2008
    As one of the main cheerleaders of the housing bubble, the National Association of Realtors has come under some well-deserved scrutiny. David Lereah, the former economist for the association, came out with a laughably wrong book called Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom?: The Boom Will Not Bust...