February U.S. Home Sales Climb 4.7% in February, 2009

Home sales rose in February 4.7 percent to a 337,000 homes per year pace. The good news pretty much stops there though.

Housing prices dropped 18.1 percent as the homes that are selling are doing so at a deep discount, very often foreclosures and short sales. The numbers were also the 2nd worst since records have been kept.

But, in this real estate market we will take whatever good news we can find, right?

The Commerce Department said sales rose 4.7 percent to a 337,000 annual pace, the fastest increase since April last year, from an upwardly revised 322,000 in January. Despite the increase, February sales were the second lowest ever after the drop in January to the slowest pace in records going back to 1963, the department said. via Reuters.

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