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Industry forecasters predict a pickup in home sales in 2026, with varying expectations for mortgage rates and price changes.

The finance and insurance sector’s growth is expected to remain robust, as falling interest rates and a buoyant equity market should support a pickup in loan growth and wealth management fees.

They imply a pickup in growth: TE’s sales have grown closer to 4% annually in recent years.

A Sept. 16 fire at the plant reduced production of F-150 pickups and other models.

But investors shouldn’t read too much into October’s pickup in sales, Selma Hepp, the chief economist at real estate technology provider Cotality, wrote in Wednesday commentary.