Abby Prentiss
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Three area counties see boost in home sales | counties, three, saw - News - The News Herald
Home sales in Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties each saw improvement in October, the first month this year that all three counties saw an increase.
Metro Market Trends released the three counties? real estate sales figures for October late last week, and each area benefited some from President Obama?s first-time homebuyer tax credit.
?It was clear there was going to be an increase in sales as we moved through the summer months and got closer to the (original) deadline,? said Rick Harper, director of the Haas Center for Business Research and Economic Development at the University of West Florida.
?The big question mark will be, what will happen to real estate over the next couple of quarters??
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Home sales in Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties each saw improvement in October, the first month this year that all three counties saw an increase.
Metro Market Trends released the three counties? real estate sales figures for October late last week, and each area benefited some from President Obama?s first-time homebuyer tax credit.
?It was clear there was going to be an increase in sales as we moved through the summer months and got closer to the (original) deadline,? said Rick Harper, director of the Haas Center for Business Research and Economic Development at the University of West Florida.
?The big question mark will be, what will happen to real estate over the next couple of quarters??
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