The number of available homes to buy in the Harrisburg area continues to fall, which has led to more competing offers and higher home prices. The median-sale price in May was up 12 percent from last year.

Homes listed for sale in York County are getting gobbled up fast and for more money. At the end of May, year-to-date county home sales were up 5 percent.

Citing a surge of buyers motivated by falling interest rates, the Realtors Association of York & Adams Counties said York County homes sales increased by 7 percent in the first quarter of the year. The association reported 1,253 home sales through March, up from 1,169 sales in the first three months of 2018. “With the drop in interest rates, there ...