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Verify national existing-home sales data for December showing a three-year high in sales pace (e.g., NAR or Census/BLS releases or cited Bloomberg report).
Data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) show that existing-home sales in December 2025 rose 5.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.35 million, and NAR’s chief economist stated that “December home sales, after adjusting for seasonal factors, were the strongest in nearly three years.” Multiple outlets summarizing the same data describe December’s sales pace as the highest since February 2023, which is about 2 years and 10 months earlier, not a full three years. Thus, December did mark the fastest sales pace in almost three years, but not literally the strongest pace over a full three‑year period, since February 2023’s sales rate was higher.
Verdict: Close, because the underlying fact that December’s existing home sales were the strongest in nearly three years is accurate, but describing it as the strongest “in three years” slightly overstates the time span compared with the official “nearly three years” characterization.