This week I received an email from local Realtor Todd Manack regarding statewide real estate sales trends, and it had some encouraging figures, but a mixed bag at best. The statewide statistics provided each month by Georgia REALTORS® show that through the first six months of 2012 pending sales are up 16.8 percent, closed sales have increased 10.8 percent, and days on the market are down 6.9 percent. While these numbers seem to provide some light at the end of the tunnel for the housing market, median and average sales prices are still declining.