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Northwest Georgia's Business
Local home sales up 38% in April; 27% for the year
-Greater Rome's real estate market continues to rebound with another solid month of sales. Realtors closed deals on 69 homes  in Floyd County last month, a 38 percent increase from April 2011.
-Year-over-year numbers for the first four months of 2012 show home sales up 27.2 percent, or from 172 in Jan. 1-April 30, 2011, to 219.
-Jason Free of Keller Williams, president of the Greater Rome Board of Realtors, calls the sales surge "grat information," adding, "we have had four consecutive months of increases in the number of units closed."
-Also key: The average sales price for homes sold in April was $116,259. "We have had four consecutive months of increase in average sales prices and the average sales price is at its highest point since June 2011," Free says.
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