Greater Lafayette Realtors report steady sales

By Max Showalter, Journal & Courier

mshowalter@journalandcourier.com

Amid talk of the housing bubble bursting and home sales plummeting, here's a number that might surprise some in Greater Lafayette.

One.

That's the difference in the number of houses sold by Realtors in Tippecanoe County from 2007 to 2008. That compares favorably against a nationwide drop of 800,000 houses sold or 14 percent, according to the National Board of Realtors