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Numbers from the Coastal Carolinas Association of Realtors show that home sales are up 2.6% over last year. That's the good news....

The not so good news is that the actual price of homes is at a historic low. However with the lower unemployment numbers, added jobs to the area and a low national fixed mortgage average home sales could grow even more. 

For the full story, including median sales price of condos, median price for single family residences and how April 2011 didn't fair as well as April 2010 in regards to home sales head on over to SCnow.com. 

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