Home sales in metro Atlanta rose in December as prices continued to increase, the Atlanta Board of Realtors said.
Sales of homes in the 11-county metro region were up 1.9 percent in December from a year ago. The median sales price of $196,000 was a 21 percent increase over December 2012.
Atlanta Board of Realtors president Todd Emerson said in a statement that the increase in both sales and prices during the traditionally slow holiday season is a “good harbinger” for the spring selling season.
“We expect these statistics to begin rising as the warmer weather arrives, but this reversal of the downward trend established over the last several months is a welcome change,” he said.
