Denver-area home sales dropped in July to the lowest level for that month in at least a dozen years. A total of 3,405 new and resale houses and condos closed escrow in July across the eight-county Denver-Aurora metro area. That was down 30.2 percent from June and down 28.8 percent from a year earlier...
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A total of 1,935 new and resale houses and condos closed escrow during July in the five-county Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro area. July sales fell 35.7 percent from 2,291 sales in June and fell 35.3 percent from 2,993 in July 2009...
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Seattle-area home sales plunged in July to the lowest level for that month in at least 16 years amid a soft economy and the expiration of federal home buyer tax credits. The median sale price rose slightly as the share of transactions above $300,000 increased...
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Phoenix region home sales dove to a 15-year low last month, falling more than 25
percent from both a year ago and from June, as the impact of home buyer tax
credits faded and new-home sales plunged. The overall median sale price fell
slightly on a year-over-year basis for the first time since January...
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The Las Vegas region logged its biggest year-over-year drop in home sales in
more than two years last month as low mortgage rates failed to compensate for
the weak economy and the fading influence of the federal home buyer tax credits.
The median sale price fell from the prior month and a year ago to its lowest
level since February...
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An estimated 35,202 new and resale houses and condos were sold statewide last
month. That was down 19.9 percent from 43,964 in June, and down 21.9 percent
from 45,079 for July 2009. California sales for the month of July have varied
from a low of 30,596 in 1995 to a peak of 71,186 in 2004, the average is
47,093...
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Bay Area home sales dropped sharply last month to the lowest level for a July in
15 years as the economy sputtered along and the housing market adjusted to life
without federal home buyer tax credits. The median sale price dipped below the
prior month and rose only slightly from a year earlier...
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Southland home sales saw their biggest year-over-year drop in more than two
years last month as the market lost most of the boost from the federal home
buyer tax credits. The median sale price dipped for the second month in a row,
the result of a shaky economic recovery, continued uncertainty about jobs, and
the expiring tax breaks...
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Miami area home sales rose sharply in June, the result of low
prices, low mortgage rates and what was likely the final big boost from the
federal home buyer tax credits. Sales of existing condos rose to a five-year
high, while the region’s overall median sale price inched up from May but
remained 6 percent lower than a year ago...
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The number of California homes pushed into the formal foreclosure process
between April and June dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter to the lowest
level in three years. The declines were greatest in the most affordable areas,
where foreclosure activity continues to fall from extremely high levels over the
past two years ...
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The number of California homes that sold for $1 million-plus declined for the
fourth consecutive year in 2009, the result of buyer reticence, a difficult
mortgage market and several years of price drops that tugged the value of many
homes below the million-dollar threshold...
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