Home Buying In welcome news to buyers, not sellers, home prices grew at a snail's pace.Blame it on the lack of listings, mortgage rate increases, reluctant sellers, and high home prices, but sales of single-family homes and condos were in the dumps in 2022.Sales of single-family homes were down 31.7% from December 2021 to December 2022 and plummeted a whopping 40.7 % from December 2020 to December 2022, according to a report The Warren Group, a real estate analytics firm, released Tuesday.