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September marked the eighth consecutive month of decline in existing home sales in the US, The Wall Street Journal reports, making it the longest streak in 15 years. As the Federal Reserve has tried to cool inflation by raising interest rates, raising mortgage rates to 6.94 percent this week, the rate on home sales has fallen sharply after the pandemic boomed. Excluding the first few months of the pandemic (when home sales stalled…