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Real estate agents have been kept on their toes this year, the Real Estate Institute says.

The number of Auckland property sales has fallen by almost a quarter over the year, and sales fell 15.7 per cent through the rest of the country.

There were 68,737 properties sold between January and November across New Zealand.

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