VENTURA COUNTY, CA – Reporting that the majority of its 12 Ventura County offices experienced an average of a 30 per cent increase in sales during December of 2011 over a year earlier, the top official of the region’s largest residential real estate company declared that this clearly signals growing consumer confidence.

Brian Troop, president of Troop Real Estate, Inc., said that homebuyer confidence has risen dramatically during the last year and particularly during the past three to four months.

“Buyers realize that home values have bottomed and will start to move upward. This is bolstered by ongoing reports of new job creation, approximately 100,000 per month, according to the National Association of Realtors®. People are now more comfortable with their job situation,” Troop said.