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Santa Clara Home Inventory May 2009

Friday, May 29th, 2009

A quick look at Santa Clara home inventory numbers shows an encouraging sign.  Homes sales are up this year especially in the last month.  Buyers have come out with a buying attitude and are making offers.  Inventory is down 40% from last year’s levels and that is a big increase.  Although the headlines are showing that defaults are continuing this will help shore up property values and hopefully prevent any further declines.

Santa Clara Home Inventory May 2009

Last week saw a large number of sales, the highest we have seen this year in Santa Clara.   Multiple offers are not uncommon on some properties.   Buyers understand that well maintained and well priced homes are selling.  Sellers this is an encouraging sign.  If you are thinking of selling be sure to put in the time an effort to make your house show well and price it right.  You should get an offer soon and be able to sell your home in a reasonable amount of time.

Santa Clara 95051 Real Estate Market Performance

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

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The median single family home price in SANTA CLARA 95051 this week is $639,500.

The Market Action Index has been basically flat recently in Santa Clar 95052, and days-on market
decreasing, there aren’t strong signals for the direction of the market.

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Despite this week’s down tic, price trends in Santa Clara 95051 area have generally been moving up lately. We are below the market’s high point, and we’ll investigate the Market Action Index later on to see if we expect this week’s blip to become a downward trend.

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Santa Clara Home Sales Performance First Third of 2009

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Median List Price $ 599,894
Average List Price $ 618,108
Total Inventory 208
Most Expensive Listing $ 1,195,000
Least Expensive Listing $ 249,950
Average Days on Market 167
Asking Price per Square Foot $ 420
Absorbed This Week* 23
Percent of Properties with Price Decrease 45 %
Percent Relisted (reset DOM) 15 %
Market Action Index 17
Median Number of Bedrooms 3.0
Median Number of Bathrooms 2.0
Median House Size (sq ft) 1,380
Median Lot Size 4500 – 6000 sq ft
Median Age 53

 Santa Clara Home Sales Performance First Third of 2009

Average days on market appear to still be advancing.  We should take a closer look at this to see which segments of the Santa Clara real estate market are performing better than others.  Also inventory appears to be plateauing for the spring, it will be interesting to see if the market slows down in the summer and if it follows the typical Santa Clara real estate cycle.

 Santa Clara Home Sales Performance First Third of 2009

The Market Action Index (MAI) illustrates the balance between supply and demand using a statistical function of the current rate of sale versus current inventory. 

An MAI value greater than 30 typically indicates a “Seller’s Market” (a.k.a. “Hot Market”) because demand is high enough to quickly gobble up available supply. A hot market will typically cause prices to rise. MAI values below 30 indicate a “Buyer’s Market” (a.k.a. “Cold Market”) where the inventory of already-listed homes is sufficient to last several months at the current rate of sales. A cold market will typically cause prices to fall.

Here we analyze the MAI for all the four different quartiles in the Santa Clara market to see how each one is performing.  The top and bottom end of Santa Clara homes are performing better than the middle tiers as you can see.

 Santa Clara Home Sales Performance First Third of 2009

This graph is showing supply and demand of homes.  How many homes are being listed versus how many homes are being sold in Santa Clara.  At the beginning of the year things were looking bleak, but it appears that the graph is moving where sales will begin to over take the listings.  This should help lower inventory numbers.

Recent Santa Clara Real Estate Statistics

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Is the Santa Clara real estate market bouncing back?  Well it may be too early to say but there are some good statistical data that seem to indicate that it may be the case.  First off lets take a look at inventory levels to see how they are performing.

 Recent Santa Clara Real Estate Statistics

Normally inventory levels should be holding rather steady in the spring market.  Currently inventory levels have been holding pretty steady for 95050 and 95054, but still showing a rise in 95051.  Lets take a look to see whats causing those inventory levels to come up.

 Recent Santa Clara Real Estate Statistics
I admit this is a pretty busy chart but follow me here.  We see that the rate of new listings for 95054 and 95050 have stayed pretty steady so far this year and the rate of absorption of those listings has stayed steady as well.  95051 however the rate of new listings have increased and the rate of absorption has stayed the same.   This has lead to increasing inventory for Santa Clara’s 95051.  Also not that more listings exist in Santa Clara 95051 area than the other two areas, as 95051 has more single family homes. 

Lets see What’s really going on here and how its affecting days on market which is the a big factor in pricing.

 Recent Santa Clara Real Estate Statistics

Based on the last graph you would expect that 95051 has a higer median days on market, but thats not the case.  Santa Clara’s 95054 actually has the highest days on market, followed by 95051 and 95050.  What really stands out in this graph is that both 95054 and 95050 median days on market are increasing.   That is an indicator that the median home in those segments are taking longer to sell.  Whereas the 95051 area the median home’s days on market have actually dropped or stayed steady.  Lets take a closer look at 95051 and see whats occuring in those market segments.

 Recent Santa Clara Real Estate Statistics

Here we are looking at the median days on market for the four differernt market segments of 95051 and we see that the top segment is actually performing the best with about 70 days.  The next two segments are peforming relatively equally at 105 days and the last segmant, the lowest priced homes are the worst performing out of the the group. at over 140 days. 

So there you see it.  Based on where your home is priced you can expect anywhere from two months to 4 and half months to sell.  Although this may not be the the news you were hoping for, it certainly seems like the market is headed in a better direction.

For a comprehensive statistical report on Santa Clara Single Family Homes download the report below.
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For a comprehensive statistical report on Santa Clara Condos & Townhomes download the report below.
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Buying a Home in Rivermark, Market Update

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

I’ve been writing quite a bit about the Rivermark Development in Santa Clara.  There is just a tremendous amount of shift and dynamic in that development right now compared to other neighborhoods.  Primary due to the numerous transactions in the past 5 years.  Today I wanted to post some information for you to see the homes sales in Rivermark and active listings in Rivermark.

The links below will provide you the active, pending and recently sold homes in Rivermark, Santa Clara.

Rivermark Sold, Pending, and Active Single Family Homes

Rivermark Sold, Pending, and Active Townhomes

For the folks that like statistics and market trends I have a comprehensive report for the 95054 area of Santa Clara.

Rivermark Home Sales Statistics

Rivermark Town home Sales Statistics

Rivermark Townhome Sales – Market Update

Rivermark Single Family Home Sales