Back To The Future With Real Estate Prices

February 24 2009 – It feels like 2002 again, the year I bought my Natick fixer-upper. Housing sales were down yet again across Massachusetts last month. And prices were down even more. Home sales fell another 12.5 percent in January, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reports in monthly numbers released today. Meanwhile, prices fell by nearly 18 percent in January, pushing the median sale price down to $263,500. That’s down from $321,000 last January. In fact, we haven’t seen home va