{"id":43237,"date":"2013-09-20T05:58:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=43237"},"modified":"2013-09-20T05:58:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T10:58:03","slug":"ohio-housing-market-up-again-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/09\/20\/ohio-housing-market-up-again-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio housing market up again in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio Association of Realtors news<\/i><\/p>\n

The number of homes sold across Ohio increased 16.9 percent in August, as the market posted year-over-year gains in activity for the 26thconsecutive month, according to the Ohio Association of Realtors.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ohio housing market, with each passing month, continues to build a solid foundation for a sustainable and growing marketplace,\u201d said OAR President Thomas J. Williams. \u201cAttaining an unprecedented 26 straight months of year-over-year gains in sales activity \u2013 our longest stretch of uninterrupted growth in 16 years of tracking Ohio home sales \u2013 is a clear indicator of robust consumer confidence and a renewed appreciation that, long-term, housing is a sound investment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Housing<\/a>Sales through the first eight months of 2013 reached 88,268, a 17.5 percent increase from the 75,134 sales posted during the same period a year ago. The average sales price (January through August) this year is $143,786, a 6.1 percent increase from the $135,465 mark set during the period a year ago.<\/p>\n

Total dollar volume this year is nearly $12.7 billion, a 24.7 percent increase from the eight-month mark of a year ago of nearly $10.2 billion.<\/p>\n

Sales in August reached 13,545, a 16.9 percent increase from the 11,583 sales posted during a year ago. The August 2013 sales total is the month\u2019s best mark since 2006. The average sales price of $149,963 is a 3.4 percent increase from the $145,093 average price posted in August 2012.<\/p>\n

Data provided to OAR by Multiple Listing Services includes residential closings for new and existing single-family homes and condominiums\/co-ops. The Ohio Association of Realtors, with more than 26,000 members, is the largest professional trade association in Ohio.<\/p>\n

To view a market-by-market analysis of sales activity throughout Ohio and local contact information, click the following link: http:\/\/www.ohiorealtors.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stats\/13HS\/Aug13VOCUS.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio Association of Realtors news The number of homes sold across Ohio increased 16.9 percent in August, as the market posted year-over-year gains in activity for the 26thconsecutive month, according to the Ohio Association of Realtors. \u201cThe Ohio housing market, with each passing month, continues to build a solid foundation for a sustainable and growing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-realestate"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 23:00:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}