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I don’t have hard data on this; however, I believe that cash buyers are minority, maybe even significant minority. It would be awesome if someone could share concrete numbers on this.

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A local realtor in my hot market on the west coast indicated to me that it was as much as a third of sales they saw in the last year FWIW.

That's partially because there is a whole new industry of preapproved loans that you can treat as cash when negotiating to buy a home.

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