Tuesday, February 17, 2009

January RMLS Market Report

January is a good news, bad news month. The bad news first - closed sales were really low. Just 732 homes were sold in January. Compared to January, 2008 that is a decline of 25.8%. This is no surprise as we feel the December snow storms kept many people indoors resulting in fewer offers to buy.

The good news is that January pending sales are up 52.5% compared to the previous year. Perhaps the snowbirds who didn't write offers in December, came out and made purchasing decisions in January.

Hopefully this upward trend will continue and be based on good value in the market place, low interest rates, and pent up demand for housing.




1 comment:

Angelika said...

I'd be curious to know about the pending sales. short sales/bank repo or no? and how many of them were price drops from their original listing?