The last two years of declining home sales and prices have been a strain on anyone connected to real estate.

Discouraging monthly and quarterly statistics compared with previous years have found industry professionals, buyers, sellers and homeowners all searching for signs that a recovery is on the way.

And then something happened: The first half of the year finished with monthly upticks in the number of new and existing homes sold and median prices.

Is it a sign the market is on the mend or could the second half of the year see a return to falling sales and prices?

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