SAN FRANCISCO - FEBRUARY 14: A for sale sign is posted in front of a home for sale February 14, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Home sales dropped nearly 42 percent from January 2007 in nine counties around the San Francisco Bay Area with only 3,586 homes purchased in the region in January, the lowest sales for any month since 1988. Getty Images logo Getty Images 21 months ago

SAN FRANCISCO - FEBRUARY 14: A for sale sign is posted in front of a home for sale February 14, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Home sales dropped nearly 42 percent from January 2007 in nine counties around the San Francisco Bay Area with only 3,586 homes purchased in the region in January, the lowest sales for any month since 1988.

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