Hartford area house and condominium sales were strong in December, finishing 2013 with another double-digit gain in sales, realty authorities say. Prices, though, remained virtually flat.
December closed sales of single-family dwellings totaled 790 units, up 13.5 percent from 696 houses sold the same month a year earlier, according to West Hartford-based Greater Hartford Association of Realtors.
For all of 2013, single-family sales rose 11.5 percent to 9,711 units from 8,711, the association said Wednesday. That’s on top of a 20-percent gain in house sales in 2012 over 2011.
Median sale prices ended 2013 at $220,000, barely up from $218,000 at the end of 2012.
Area condo sales rose 12.3 percent in December, to 173 units from 154 a year earlier. For the year, condo sales grew 16 percent to 2,363 units from 2,038.
Condo prices ended the year soft, falling to a median $147,500 last month from $150,500 at the end of 2012.
“2013 saw a rebound in the greater Hartford housing market,” GHAR President and CEO Jeff Arakelian said in a statement. “For this trend to continue, new listings need to remain on the increase as prices stabilize.
