New Listing Market Watch - The Fall Surge

As predicted everywhere and every year new listings increase dramatically right after Labor day and this year is no exception.

Since the beginning of June we've averaged 249 new listings every two weeks.  In the two weeks ending yesterday there were 441 new listings.  It's easy to predict that two weeks from now we will see another surge in new listings.  There were 174 new listings of single family homes compared to 85 in the prior period and compared to 192 a year ago.  Similarly, there were 267 new listings of condos compared to 122 in the prior period and 252 a year ago. 

There were only 9 price reductions of single family homes in the last two weeks compared to virtually the same number in the two prior periods each and compared to only 4 a year ago.  The story is a little different for condo price reductions -- in the last two weeks there were 22 price reductions, a little higher than in each of the  prior two periods, and compared to 34 a year ago.

As we've noted before, all of these new listings aren't "new new" listings.  Some properties that had been on the market but not sold in June/July may have been taken off the market and then brought back on 30+ days later.  That resets the "days on market" clock to zero days on market.