FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 13, 2009
(RESIDENTIAL RESALE STATISTICS January 2009)
An unusually active January kept sales above average for the month. The following information, compiled by the Sacramento Association of REALTORS®, is collected from the MetroList® multiple listing services and covers Sacramento County and the City of West Sacramento. January closed with 1,542 single family home sales, the most ever recorded by the Association during the month of January. Month-to-month, this figure represents a 20.2% decrease from December’s 1,932 sales, but a 108% increase over the 739 sales of January 2008. Of the 1,542 sales recorded this month, 1,168 were listed as REO properties. This accounts for over 75% of all sales.

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