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Housing Data · 22 July 2026

Why one house sells in four days and the one across the street sits for sixty-one

It happens on ordinary streets in Cary and Raleigh every month: two comparable houses, listed weeks apart, with completely different outcomes. The explanation is almost never the market.

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