An estimated 36,468 new and resale houses and condos sold statewide last month. That was up 1.2 percent from 36,027 in September, and down 7.1 percent from 39,254 sales in October 2012, according to San Diego-based DataQuick.
October sales have varied from a low of 25,832 in 2007 to a high of 70,152 in 2003. Last month's sales were 15.4 percent below the average of 43,092 sales for all the months of October since 1988, when DataQuick's statistics begin.Click to continue