Home sales fall in Queens, Brooklyn

January 05, 2009 05:00PM

The number of home sales in the outer boroughs are falling fast. Sales of one-, two-, and three-family homes in Brooklyn fell 37.5 percent last year, according to the Daily News, and in Queens, home sales fell 34.8 percent last year. The Richmond Hill neighborhood in Queens saw home sales fall from 938 sales to 665 in 2007. In Astoria, the average number of days a home sat on the market doubled in the past year, reaching 120 days on the market. In Brooklyn, Nancy Pecoraro, a vice president at Fillmore Real Estate, said she has been selling far fewer homes in Sheepshead Bay because prices are down from a year ago, but many sellers are still unwilling to lower prices.
[NYDN]

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