Phoenix, Arizona has seen some ups and downs in its June home sales, with the biggest high for the overall sales. The region has boosted its monthly sales by 11%, as compared to the previous month. Even the median sale price rose, for the fourth month in a row, above last year’s level.

A lot of factors can be thanked for this positive turn to Phoenix’s home sales. The biggest one, most probably, is the tax credit. Also, more $200,000-plus homes were sold in that month. Even the number of sold foreclosed properties went down.

San Diego’s MDA DataQuick, which started tracking the Phoenix-area statistics in 1994, released the numbers for Phoenix’s June sales. The company says it is normal to see a rise in May and June sales, with gains averaging 1.4%. They do admit, though, that this year’s June rise is 4.8% lower than the average of 10,951.

In the combined Maricopa-Pinal counties metropolitan area, 10,430 new and resale condo units and houses were sold. This figure is up 11.2% from the previous month though down 2.8% from June of 2009.

Resale of both existing houses and condos are 8.5% more than May’s but 5.9% less than 2009’s. There was a dip of 8.5% in sales of existing detached houses but a boost of 17.5% in resale condos.

New homes also enjoyed a significant growth in sales, with the numbers rising 35.1% vis-à-vis May’s numbers. Though the number is also 26.9% higher than June 2009’s, it is still the second lowest turnout for the month of June in more than 10 years.

Home buyers paid an average of $139,500 – 0.4% up from May – for both new and resale houses in June 2010. This median is also 7.3% more compared to last year’s $130,000. This is the fourth month that the figure has increased year-over-year; prior to

February of 2010, the median has been falling for 36 consecutive months.

Even with the good numbers, though, DataQuick points out that June still fell 47.2% short of the $264,100 peak in June 2006. And though highest for this year, June’s median is still lower than the high for the last 12 months, which was $142,700 in November. The lowest median since the post-housing boom is $125,000 in April 2009.

Resale condos saw a bleak median at $89,900 – lower by 8.3% from May, lower by 13.6% from 2009, and lower by 51.8% from the $186,500 peak in June 2007. The median for resale single family homes, though 49.3% lower than the $268,000 peak of June 2006, is still 8.7% higher than last year’s at $135,875.

As for foreclosures, 5,467 houses and condos were closed – this may be 19.5% increase from may but it is also 7.1% decrease from last year. In the first half of 2010, a total of 30,797 housing units have been foreclosed, up by 9.9% versus the same period in 2009.