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Pueblo real estate businesses hit hard by housing market slowdown
Pueblo’s real estate market is continuing to slow down, and the fallout is impacting businesses industrywide. It’s not just Realtors feeling the impacts — it’s home builders, mortgage lenders and title companies too. “Overall, the housing slowdown is having a ripple effect across the industry as we see more title companies, mortgage companies and builders reducing staff,” said Dave Anderson, Pueblo Association of Realtors communications chair. “There’s layoffs coming, I am sure,” said Randy Nobiensky, self-employed contractor with RH Builders who is seeing the impact on builders and Realtors. “We are all connected, all in the same boat, and with the interest rates where they are. People are not buying,…