Cash still rules home sales

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:48 p.m. May 13, 2015
  • Manatee-Sarasota
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SARASOTA-MANATEE — Fewer people are spending cash to buy houses in Manatee and Sarasota counties, but it still represents more than half of all home sales. According to the most recent monthly data available from CoreLogic Inc., 58.3% of all home sales in February were paid in cash. That was a decline of 3.1% percentage points from February 2014.

 

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