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There’s no sign of a slowdown in Massachusetts home prices

Slightly more single-family homes were sold in April statewide than during the same time last year

Associated Press file

Slightly more single-family homes were sold in April statewide than during the same time last year, marking the first year-over-year increase in sales in since last November, according to housing data tracking firm the Warren Group.

The 4,157 sales recorded last month marked a 1.2 percent rise over April 2017 — a tiny, but hopeful movement of the needle in a housing market that has been stymied by a shortage of properties for sale, the Globe’s Katheleen Conti reports.

But Massachusetts Association of Realtors’ data released Wednesday found single-family home sales in Massachusetts were flat in April, down 0.4 percent. Still, the agency, which tracks a smaller pool of transactions than Warren, reported the number of single-family homes for sale was back over 10,000 after four months of falling under that benchmark.

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