"Housing Rebound on the Way?"

Mike Pramick
The Columbus Dispatch
Jan. 25, 2008


Local home sales declined for the second straight year in 2007, further evidence that the national real-estate crisis has touched central Ohio.
What's going to happen in 2008? It depends on whether you believe in statistics or optimism.
The Columbus Board of Realtors said yesterday that sales of single-family homes and condominiums in central Ohio dropped by 6.9 percent last year to 24,445. The properties sold for an average of $172,531, down 1.2 percent from the previous year...