homes sale increase: Sales are up at Luxury Home Builder - Massachusetts Blog - 08/18/09 03:05 PM
Toll Brothers, best known for its super-sized homes, and available in a number of Massachusetts communities, surprised the market recently with a 44% surge in orders from its second quarter.  It was their first quarterly increase in signed contracts in four years. 
This is all happening at a time when builders have been working on plans to shrink and downsize homes based on their perception that the market has changed.  According to the Census Bureau, the average size of new detached single-family homes sold in the U.S. has declined over the past year.  
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