Decline in Mass.housing sales grows steeper

The Boston Globe reports:

The drop-off in Massachusetts home sales last year just got worse.

The Warren Group, a Boston real-estate services firm, reported yesterday that sales of single-family homes declined 7.6 percent last year. That is much larger than the 3.5 percent drop in 2005 sales reported recently by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors in its year-end report.

Next is prices.