Massachusetts Association of Realtors

Worcester County and Massachusetts home prices continue to be high as prospective home buyers have trouble finding homes in their budget.

The number of Massachusetts single-family homes under a purchase agreement in August was up 12 percent, a rebound for pending sales after a drop the previous month.

For the first time in two years, pending single-family home sales dropped last month compared to the year prior.

Around three dozen of the state's 351 cities and towns have adopted special zoning districts intended to encourage housing production, and a bill moving through the Legislature aims to make it easier for more communities to do the same.

Sales of single family homes across Massachusetts were up in June, as market and price confidence fell for the first time in months.

Single-family home and condo prices both rose significantly in March, as did the number of sales, according to data from the Massachusetts Association of Realtors Wednesday.

Home prices rose last month but the number of sales fell sharply, according to new data released Tuesday by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.

Single-family home sales in Massachusetts increased 8.5 percent in 2016 while December home sales were essentially flat, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors said.

A day after Warren Group analysts announced near-record home sales and sale prices for the month of November, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that the inventory of homes for sale last month hit its lowest level since the trade group began tracking the basic metric in January 2004.

Colder temperatures are not cooling the Massachusetts housing market.