Bay Area home sales remain at two-decade low

clipped from www.dqnews.com The waiting game between Bay Area buyers, sellers and lending institutions continued last month as sales dipped below 4,000 for the second month in a row, a real estate information service reported. January and February are the two slowest months in DataQuick's statistics, which go back to 1988. They are the only months with sales below 4,000. A total of 3,989 new and resale houses and condos sold in the nine- county Bay Area in February. That was up 11.2 percent from 3,586 in January, and down 36.7 percent from 6,305 for February 2007