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Interpreting Housing Market Trends
For several decades, the median house price in a country was consistently about 3.5 times the median household income. Over the past five years, this figure has rapidly climbed to 7.0. Explain two distinct economic concerns that this sharp and sustained increase would raise for an analyst monitoring the housing market.
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