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The once booming U.S. housing market has cooled down considerably. Higher mortgage rates, lofty home valuations and a lack of inventory has kept a lid on both sales and price growth in many places. Fortunately, there is no evidence to date that this slowdown is going to cause the housing market to collapse as it did in the early 2000s. But a handful of markets still appear headed for a period of…