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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Vacation-Home Sales Up in 2009 but Investment Sales Down

(March 31, 2010) – Vacation-home sales recovered in 2009 while investment sales fell sharply, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

NAR’s 2010 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey, covering existing- and new-home transactions in 2009, shows vacation-home sales rose 7.9 percent to 553,000 last year from 513,000 in 2008, while investment-home sales fell 15.9 percent to 940,000 in 2009 from 1.12 million in 2008. Primary residence sales rose 7.1 percent to 4.04 million in 2009 from 3.77 million in 2008.

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