Price cuts by sellers nation wide, according to Trulia.
The combined value of reductions was $27.1 billion in the year through July 1, Trulia said in its previous monthly report.
Sellers of higher-priced properties in states that haven’t been hard-hit during the housing recession may be “catching up with the rest of the country,” Flint said.
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Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Illinois had the highest share of homes with price reductions at 33 percent, followed by six states at 29 percent: Oregon, Washington, New Jersey, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Maryland.
Just to be clear, that’s 33% of listings that have had price reductions–not a 33% reduction in actual listing price.
Diva, I’m guessing that in Greenwich it’s more like 85%. I’ll try playing around with the GAR’s primitive data base and see if I can determine the actual number.