Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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  In a given real estate market, home prices fall more slowly in a bust than they rise in a boom. Homeowners can simply take their homes off the market if they don't receive acceptable offers. By limiting the supply of available homes, they keep a floor under prices. Home values diminish slowly, so economists say that prices are "sticky downward."
  
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