Housing market forecasts are a bit of a mug's game because the last two years have been so out of whack. No one really anticipated the extent of the pandemic housing boom. So that experience makes it much more difficult to forecast wherehousing markets will ultimately land. Sove go, given all these factors that we've talked about, where do you think things are heading?
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