Home sales have increased in Maine, and with those sales have come higher prices.

According to the Maine Real Estate Information System Inc., Realtors reported a 10.6 increase in existing single-family home sales in June 2010 compared to June 2009. In the first half of 2010, sales jumped 27.6 percent over the same time last year.

In June, prices rose nearly 3 percent over June 2009, to a median of $175,000. For the entire first half of the year, they rose nearly 4.4 percent. 

Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties all saw sales jump for the first half of 2010 compared to the first half of 2009. In Androscoggin, sales rose nearly 34 percent, from 282 sales to 377. Oxford sales jumped nearly 29 percent, from 184 to 237 sales. Franklin increased 65 percent, from 66 homes sold to 109, making it the county with the largest increase in home sales in Maine.

But while all three counties saw a greater number of home sales, not all saw higher prices. Median prices rose nearly 4 percent in Androscoggin, from $130,000 to $135,000, and nearly 40 percent in Franklin, from $89,250 to $123,000. But prices fell 6 percent in Oxford, from $133,000 to $124,800.

Washington County saw the largest increase in median home prices, from $48,750 in 2009 to $93,750 in 2010, a 92 percent jump.