Wednesday, November 15, 2023

October sales highlights

Updated reports have been posted on our web site:

www.boldsf.com/Statistic


San Francisco

New Listing Market Watch

Compared to the previous two week period:

  • Big drop in new condo/TIC listings 161 vs 232
  • Big increase in condo/TIC price reductions

Compared to the same two week period a year ago:

  • Smaller number of price reductions of single-family homes
  • Somewhat smaller number of price reductions of condos/TICs
  • Total new listings down 17% compared to the prior two week period but just about equal to the same period last year.

Fundamentals

  • Inventory is virtually the same both for single family homes and condos/TICs compared to two weeks ago
  • Sales for the month so far (we have one day to go) shows single family homes near what they were for October last year but condo sales are only 74% of what they were a year ago.

Market Analysis

  • Big jump in avg sales price for 2/1 single family homes $1260 vs $1080 in September
  • No similar increase in avg sales price for 3/2 single family homes.
  • Both configurations are selling 12-14% over asking.
  • Overall the number of sales of all single family homes was up 34% compared to September and slightly ahead of the same month a year ago.
  • Number of sales of condos jumped 16% from 159 in September to 185 in October.  Average sales price of all condo sales dropped 7% from $1367 to $1267
  • Big jump in the number of 1/1 condos sold in October:  50 vs 29 and a corresponding rise in average selling price:  $789 vs $670 and a drop in average days on market from 72 to 54.  Premium was at 98%, down 1% compared to September.
  • Avg selling price of 2/1 condos was up 12% and for the first time in a while the premiums was over asking by 3%.


Marin

Fundamentals

  • 4/4 single family homes averaging sales prices well below asking.
  • Most premiums above average are in the smaller homes 2/1, 2/2, 3/2