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Home sales surge 36% in Pierce County

The $8000 and $6500 Federal program Tax Credit helps drive 36 percent jump in Pierce County. Western Washington home sales swept upward last month with pending deals rising nearly 51 percent in Western and Central Washington and nearly 36 percent in Pierce County.

New figures from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service show pending sales in King and Snohomish counties surged even more than those in Pierce with increases of 69.05 percent in King and 77.11 percent in Snohomish.

Home deals in Thurston and Kitsap counties jumped too, though not as much as those in Pierce, King or Snohomish counties. Kitsap showed a 31.33 percent increase in pending sales, the Northwest MLS figures showed, while Thurston saw a 30 percent increase from the same month in 2009.

As a reminder those tax credits are set to expire at the end of this month!