DFW home sales surge (big) in Jan. 2018

​​DALLAS-FORT WORTH – North Texas home sales started 2018 with a surge—up 12 percent in Jan. 2018 from Jan. 2017.

But price increases slowed to just 5 percent annually compared with a 15 percent sales price gain in 2017.

Real estate agents sold 6,246 preowned single-family homes in January 2018, according to data from the Real Estate Center at Texas A&Mand the North Texas Real Estate Information Systems.

That was the most preowned homes ever sold in January 2018 in DFW.

In 2017, real estate agents in North Texas sold more than 106,000 preowned homes—a record—and total sales were up 5 percent from the 2016 total.​