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40 percent of transactions in NYC were done with no finance contingency ("all cash") in the last year.

That's a record and it's vastly more than years past. We live in a world where people with vast assets are beating out people who rely on job income for things like housing.

The stock market exploded the past year, and there's your bifurcation: those with assets and those without - getting worse.



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