Braintree Home Sales Flat in June

Braintree single-family home sales remained relatively flat in June, bucking a trend statewide that showed Massachusetts sales climbing in June to the highest level for any month in three years, according to a report published Tuesday by The Warren Group.

Single-family home sales in Massachusetts rose 1 percent in June, the second straight month of increases, according to The Warren Group. A total of 5,591 single-family homes sold in June, up from 5,535 a year earlier.

"The housing market continues to boom locally, and nationally," said The Warren Group CEO Timothy M. Warren Jr. "As long as mortgage rates and home prices don't spike too high, we'll see a very strong recovery year for the market in 2013."

In Braintree, however, sales barely increased from 34 in June 2012 to 35 last month, a 2.94 percent hike. Year-to-date sales of single-family homes in Braintree are off slightly from last year, down 1.39 percent to 142 homes from 144 last year at this time.

Norfolk County as a whole saw an uptick in June. The county's communities saw 758 single-family homes sold last month, up from 719 in June 2012. That is a 5.42 percent increase. Year-to-date sales are also up, by slightly more than 2 percent.