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The most obvious pinch of the national slowdown has been in the sale of real estate in the county. Though the count? does not count house sales, it does keep track of real estate transfers- houses, acreage and commercial buildings.
The transfer of land has dropped over die last three years, according to courthouse records. From July 2005 to June 2006 there were 313 land transfers; from July 2006 to June 2007, there were 187 land transfers and from July 2007 to June 30, 2008, there were 138 transfers. A good many of these involve houses and many of them are valued from $400,000 and above.
Alan Zuschlag, a county real estate agent, said that the freese on sales seems to have hit the middle part of
44.8%