Rich Cosgrove: Women s suffrage and the growth of women s rights
Rich Cosgrove
Remembering the progress of women’s suffrage in the United States is precisely to what Women’s History Month is dedicated.
Although there has been much improvement in how women are treated in the real estate community, there was a time where women did not have the same fair and equal treatment as our male counterparts.
On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified after nearly a century of continuous protests from women in the United States. This amendment gave women the right to vote, and later the right to own property, and legal claim to their own money. According to History.com, the Women’s Suffrage Movement had its roots in the abolition movement. A key figure you might know who played a vital role in the abolitionist and women’s rights movement is Sojourner Truth, a feminist and abolitionist during the 1800s. It is very fitting that Women’s History Month follows Black History month
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But there was at least one positive: Home sales.
If you needed or wanted to sell your home, there was no shortage of buyers, many of them willing to pay top dollar. It was an amazing year for real estate, said Rich Cosgrove, president of the Stark County Association of Realtors.
MLS Now an Independence-based listing service which covers 23 Ohio counties including Stark reported 55,655 properties were sold last year, a 5.3% gain from 52,831 the previous year.
There was a 5.2% increase in home sales in Stark County, as they jumped from 5,301 to 5,577.
Summit County also saw a significant gain in sales with 9,071 sold last year, a 6.1% increase over the 8,550 sold the previous year, according to MLS Now data.