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Pierce County home sales in July, typically one of the busier months of the year, were down year-over-year in most of the 17 areas tracked by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Two were up: DuPont and Browns Point.
Check out the number of houses and condos sold in each of the areas below and by what percentage each increased or decreased compared to the same month in 2007, according to MLS figures released this week. For some context, sales dropped countywide year-over-year from 1,141 sales in July 2007 to 796 sales last month, a decline of 30.2 percent.
| Area | July | Year-over-year change |
| Anderson Island | 3 | -40% | Bonney Lake/Lake Tapps | 101 | -30.8% |
| Browns Point | 23 | +4.5% |
| DuPont | 43 | +43.3% |
| Graham/Eatonville | 25 | -34.2% | Fife | 35 | -45.3% |
| Gig Harbor | 56 | -41.7% | Lakewood | 51 | -3.8% |
| Parkland | 41 | -31.7% | Puyallup | 159 | -26.4% |
| Roy | 9 | -43.8% |
| Spanaway | 70 | -8.6% |
| Tacoma, Central | 27 | -38.6% | Tacoma, North | 47 | -40.5% |
| Tacoma, South | 42 | -39.1% | Tacoma, Southeast | 36 | -48.6% |
| UP/Fircrest | 28 | -50.9% |
