Mixed housing sales results for January
YOUNGSTOWN
Housing sales were mixed across the Mahoning Valley in January.
Columbiana County saw no change in closed sales from January 2014 to January 2015, but pending sales increased by 56.8 percent.
New listings went from 98 to 73 — a 25.5 percent drop, data released by the Youngstown/Columbiana Association of Realtors showed.
Mahoning County had a 16 percent increase in closed sales when it went from 125 closed sales in January 2014 to 145 in January 2015.
Pending sales also increased in the county by 38.1 percent while new listings decreased by just 4.3 percent.
Trumbull County also saw an increase in pending and closed sales, data released by the Warren Area Board of Realtors showed. Pending increased by 25.6 percent from January 2014 to January 2015 and closed sales went from 110 to 125 for a 13.6 percent increase. New listings stayed the same at 215 in January 2014 and 2015.