Intrigued by a post over at
RealCentralVA exploring
the number of contracts for single family homes for each of the 10 past months of May in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, I thought I'd see how Harrisonburg and Rockingham County are performing compared to our neighbors over the mountain.
Reading
Jim Duncan's article, you'll note that the number of buyers signing contracts for single family homes has decreased for the past several years. Here is an overlay of Harrisonburg / Rockingham data with Charlottesville / Albemarle data....
Again, the data above is showing the number of contracts that were signed in the month of May (for the past five years) on single family homes in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County as compared to Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
To make it a bit clearer....
As you can see, the number of home sales (contracts in this case) has continued to decline for the past several months of May in the Charlottesville area, but those same measures have started to level off and increase here in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.
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