Real estate stocks have gotten crushed over the last couple of years as soaring mortgage rates have squeezed demand. At the same time, homeowners who capitalized on rock-bottom mortgage rates during the earlier days of the pandemic are reluctant to sell and give up their low mortgage rates.

As a result, existing home sales slipped to their lowest level last year, falling 19% to 4.09 million. That's even lower than they were during the trough in the housing market crash during the global financial crisis of 2007-2009.

However, current market circumstances should favor real estate stocks like digital platform Opendoor Technologies (NASDAQ: OPEN).

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