Sunday, January 15, 2023

December and 4th Quarter Recap

This week we posted our regular monthly and quarterly reports for 2022 as well as our biweekly New Listing Market Watch report.  Here are some highlights (lowlights?).

NewListing Market Watch

  • ·       Single family new listings: 94 in 2021, 64 in 2022, 42 this year.
  • ·       Condo new listings: 241, 151, and 84



Fundamentals

  • ·       Sales in December down compared to November (typical for this time of year)
  • ·       Average selling prices are down compared to November, -2% for single family homes and 22% for condos.  Compared to December a year ago average selling prices are down 22% for single family homes and 24% for condos.
  • ·       Inventory is up over 50% for single family homes compared to a year ago, and 7-8% for condos.

 

By PriceRange

  • ·       Premiums for the year compared to 2021 were steady at 112% for single family homes and 103% for condos. 

  • ·       BUT, for the last six months premiums dropped for single family homes to 105% and for condos to 100%.  (By comparison for the last half of 2021 premiums were 112% for single family homes and 105% for condos).

 

Quarterly

  • ·       For the five configurations of single family homes and condos we track, the number of sales and average sales prices were down across the board.