“For the first time this year, sales of Massachusetts single-family homes declined in July, posting a 26 percent decrease from July 2009, according to the latest report by The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
Single-family home sales dropped 26.15 percent in July, reversing a trend of 12 straight months of increases. A total of 3,668 single-family homes sold in July, down from 4,967 a year earlier. This is the fewest number of sales in the month of July since 1990. In the first five months prior to July, sales …