Sharon Home Sales Dropped in December, Rise Overall in 2012
Statewide home sales, meanwhile, were the highest they've been in six years, according to The Warren Report.
It was a solid year for real estate in Massachusetts. Sales of single-family homes across the state rose 18 percent in 2012, according to a recent report from The Warren Group. Statewide, home sales rose more than 18 percent to 46,887 from 39,594 in 2011, according to the report, which marked the highest number of annual sales recorded in the state since 2006, when sales topped 50,000. In December 2012, single-family home sales statewide increased 8 percent to 3,688, a jump from 3,410 in December the previous year. So how did Sharon home sales do, according to the report? While sales in Sharon actually dropped by 17.65 percent in December 2012 compared to the same month in 2011, year-to-date sales rose by more than 18 percent, from …
