Sales of all property types totaled 8,127, up 6.0-percent over the same month last year. October’s total dollar volume increased 9.3 percent to $2.3 billion.
“With August and September home sales figures skewed by the effects of Hurricane Harvey, October seemed to mark a return to normalcy in terms of overall market activity,” said HAR Chair Kenya Burrell-VanWormer with JPMorgan Chase. “However, we are prepared for slower sales as we wrap up 2018, between the tight supply of homes and the fact that we typically see less activity around the holidays.”