Despite pandemic, June proves to be record month for Howard Hanna

PITTSBURGH — A pandemic that has forced so many people to stay home is motivating plenty of shoppers to buy new ones.

That's what Howard Hanna Mortgage Services, a division of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, finds in reporting a record month for mortgage writing in June 2020. The company reports it wrote $354 million in mortgages in June 2020, up 37.7 percent to the $257 million in June 2019. The company's previous record was $263 million in May 2019.

F. Duffy Hanna, president of Howard Hanna Financial Services, believes the mass quarantining that motivated lots of home shopping, online or otherwise.

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