Wednesday, January 13th, 2010An increase in home sales marks an end to Sacramento’s 2009 real estate market activity.
After a month-to-month decrease, sales rebounded in December, increasing 14.5% with 1,648 units sold – 209 more than November. Year-to-year, however, the current figure is 14.7% below the 1,932 sales of December 2008. Bank-owned properties continue to make up a majority of home sales, with 671 units – or 40.7% of the total sales attributed to REO units. The remainder of the sales was comprised of short sales (24.5% or 403 units) and conventional sales (34.8% or 574 units). When compared with November, REO sales remained stable, while short sales showed an increase. Conventional sales showed a decrease, most likely attributed to homeowners taking their homes off the market.
December’s median sales price increased slightly month-to-month, from $187,000 to $187,500, a .3% change. The current median price is 4.5% above the $180,000 median price of December 2008, the second month in a row there have year-to-year increase in median sales price. Total listing inventory increased month-to-month (5,096 to 5,425), but decreased 16% from the 6,462 Total Listing Inventory of December 2008. The Housing Market Supply figure decreased slightly from 3.5 months November to 3.3 months this month. This figure is even with the Housing Market Supply figure of December 2008. This figure represents the amount of time – in months – it would take to deplete the total listing inventory given the current rate of sales. According to MetroList® MLS data, the average home spent 52 days on market (from the time it was listed to the time escrow was opened) and was 1,728 square feet. Of the 1,648 sales this month, 177 (10.7%) had 2 bedrooms or fewer, 842 (51.1%) had 3 bedrooms, 495 (30%) were 4 bedroom properties and 130 (7.8%) boasted 5+ bedrooms. A report that shows similar information for each Sacramento zip code is available at ims.sacrealtor.org, the REALTORS® only section of the SAR website.
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