Potential home buyers are following the bargains.

An article in The Boston Sunday Globe on April 15, 2007 indicated that the drop in home prices over the past 18 months has buyers jumping into the market.

"A year long slowdown in the real estate market has pushed down prices in Massachusetts, prompting home shoppers to come off the sidelines and buy. Yet while still tilted in the buyers' favor, brokers said the market is picking up as the number of available homes is dropping and more are going under agreement."

Inventories of homes for sale dropped 17 percent to 45,000 listings in February, according to the article.

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