Local home buyers taking time on decisions

CHAMPAIGN – Home sales in Champaign County are down 8 percent from where they were a year ago.

Statistics from the Champaign County Association of Realtors' Multiple Listing Service show 476 homes were sold during the first three months of this year. That compares with 519 homes sold during the first quarter of 2007.

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