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This year’s Local Leaders list — a record of the nation’s 50 largest markets ranked by new-home closings in 2019 — provides a bird’s-eye view of the new - home construction industry’s most productive year in over a decade. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Local Leaders list has become one of many 2019 datasets thrown into turmoil. While it is accurate in its view of the past, it will be difficult to use to project continued growth, positive or negative, without the context of the virus’s effects on each market.
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