Southwestern Pennsylvania saw more real estate listings in sales at the opening of 2016 than it did the year prior. According to a report by real estate agency West Penn Multi-List, 191 more homes were put up for sale in January 2016 (2,511) than in January 2015. It also saw 71 more homes sold this January (1,432) than a year earlier (1,361). The report includes statistics from Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Clarion, Crawford, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset, Venango, Washington and Westmoreland counties. However, the 5 percent increase in homes sold did not keep pace with the 8 percent jump in those listed — something Berkshire Hathaway Home Services CEO and West Penn Multi-List President Ron Croushore said he wasn’t concerned about. Croushore said West Penn Multi-List has five months’ worth of properties available to sell, three months fewer than they did this time last year. “If we keep selling at the pace we’re selling at now, in the
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