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For decades, owning a home has been one of the core parts

of the American dream, just below Dating Pete Davidson.

But right now, actually buying a home is harder

than Matt Gaetz watching the new save by the bell.

With the housing market, wed hot, prospective buyers

are trying not to get burned as demand soars,

but supply is limited.

Home prices rising at their highest rate in 15 years

and demand so intense that Redfin reports nearly half of homes

are selling within a week of hitting the market.

Perspective home buyers in astronomical bidding wars,

homes vanishing from listings hours after being posted.

You go to an open house, there could be 50 cars

in a line outside waiting to see that property.

People are so desperate that they'll court favors,

you know, potential sellers, tickets to rare events.

Even houses with notorious histories are selling.

This is the 100-year-old Mediterranean-style home in LA

where the Charles Manson family murdered Lena and Rosemary LaBianca

in 1969, but in today's market, it was snapped up

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