The number of properties sold on the Cape jumped more than 22 percent in April compared to the same time last year, according to the latest data released Thursday by the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds.
The median sales price also increased.
“April did not disappoint,” Register of Deeds John Meade said about the number of sales. The registry tracks all sales valued at more than $50,000.
The number of sales increased to 592 deeds last month compared to 484 for the same time last year, the registry said. The median sales price was $302,650 last month, compared with $288,500 in April 2011. That represents a 4.9 percent increase.
The median sales price has hit at least $300,000 five times in the last 13 months, according to registry data. Last month was the highest median since December 2010, when the midpoint was $310,000.
This was the fourth straight month in which the number of sales increased from the same time last year, Meade said.
Not all the news was good. The number of foreclosures continued at a higher pace in April than the same month last year.
There were 32 foreclosures last month, compared with 27 during April 2011. There have been 155 for the first four months of this year, compared to 126 for the same period in 2011.
John Ciluzzi, president of Premier Commercial, said the Cape real estate market improvement has been “across the board,” including commercial, retail and office space.
“There is activity now,” he said. “Things really started picking up in the fall of 2011.”
