Delaware County, state home sales a mixed bag for September 2014

Besides the local numbers, there are developments in local real estate and finance, including new ownership and new names.

The warm-weather months are traditionally the hottest time of the year for home sales. That doesn’t mean that people don’t buy houses in the winter, but spring and summer and early fall usually see an uptick in home sales.

So do the latest numbers from the Indiana Association of Realtors mean that homebuyers have gone into hibernation?

Closed sales and prices were down in September, the realtors group said, but new listings were up. Closed sales were down 10.8 percent over September 2013 and down 11 percent for the year to date.

The median sales price was down 12.7 percent in September — to $79,900 — compared to the same month the previous year and down 2.5 percent for the year so far, when that median price was $81,200.