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Home sales, we were all rooting for you.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabrina Bennisier in New York.

Last month, April, people bought and sold more homes than they did the year before.

But not by much.

It was up just two-tenths of a percent.

This is according to numbers released by the National Association of Realtors.

All of that yearly sales growth was happening in the South.

Existing home sales were flat in the West and fell in the Midwest and Northeast.

So we asked Marketplaces, Carla Javier, to look into why sales have been so sluggish.

There were signs that home sales were going to pick up this year, says Lisa Sturdivant at Bright MLS.

Mortgage rates were going to come down.

Listings were on the rise.

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