In the thick of the pandemic in Greater Hartford, home sales took it on the chin, falling nearly 13 percent in May, compared with a year ago, but sale prices held their own, rising slightly, a new report Tuesday shows.
The median sale price of a single-family house in May – where half the sales are above, half below – was $265,000, up nearly 2 percent, compared with $260,000 for the same month a year ago, according to the monthly report from the Greater Hartford Association of Realtors, an industry group.
Despite the monthly decline in home sales, closed sales through the first five months of this year remained relatively flat, compared with the same period in 2019.