Arkansas home sales up in February

Believe it or not, February turned out to be a pretty solid month in Arkansas in terms of the number of homes that were sold.

How did things go in February? The combined number of homes sales in central Arkansas, the Fort Smith area, the Jonesboro area and northwest Arkansas totaled 1,169 in February — up 12.4 percent from 1,040 sales in the same month a year ago. The average sales price in February for those areas was $156,576 — up 6.06 percent from $147,625 in the same month last year.

Click here to have a look at the full report over at The City Wire in Fort Smith.

That nifty report is put together every month by The City Wire in conjunction with that number-crunching Ethan C. Nobles, the owner of this here blog and First Arkansas News.