Thursday, May 10, 2007

A Decade of April Sales

Arlington County

YearSalesActive ListingsRatioMedian Sold Price

20072529383.72$485,000

20062161,1225.19$525,000

20052713531.30$520,000

20043452860.83$395,000

20032573521.37$321,000

20022452961.21$320,000

20012283351.47$250,000

20002183751.72$207,500

19992726872.53$215,500

1998247N/AN/A$205,000

Alexandria City

YearSalesActive ListingsRatioMedian Sold Price

20072049354.58$448,950

20061921,0095.26$434,000

20052662721.02$420,000

20042742410.88$401,071

20032542480.98$280,000

20022152161.00$231,000

20012563131.22$175,000

20002144282.00$169,250

19992216823.09$201,000

1998178N/AN/A$192,750

Fairfax County

YearSalesActive ListingsRatioMedian Sold Price

20071,1427,1016.22$474,200

20061,4117,7085.46$480,000

20051,7962,2891.27$458,000

20041,9592,1751.11$365,000

20031,8042,8181.56$299,900

20021,7112,5631.50$260,000

20011,7392,9511.70$226,000

20001,5283,0361.99$197,000

19991,6365,0503.09$192,000

19981,340N/AN/A$195,000

Loudoun County

YearSalesActive ListingsRatioMedian Sold Price

20074673,5017.50$431,900

20064674,3149.24$470,000

20057601,2591.66$470,000

20046851,1201.64$355,000

20035341,5182.84$280,000

20025131,4092.75$245,000

20015091,2352.43$235,000

20003699072.46$192,400

19993161,3414.24$185,000

19982621,7126.53$186,950

19971851,6819.09$174,523

Prince William County & Manassas

YearSalesActive ListingsRatioMedian Sold Price

20074775,77012.10$360,000

20067055,1897.36$380,000

20051,0931,3281.22$355,000

20049089971.10$268,000

20037671,4241.86$210,000

20027991,1791.48$179,500

20017501,1921.59$153,988

20005951,4272.40$132,900

19994762,0554.32$133,450

19983452,8218.18$125,000

19973262,9869.16$124,000

7 comments:

McDude said...

Harriett,

Noticed your NoVa active foreclosures. I am following just as closely (maybe somewhat stalkerish) Southern Md as well. And is was not seeing the high numbers of FC's as I expected and then checked the active BK's and saw where people were filing, probably in trying to keep the house, and not realizing that with the new BK laws you have to qualify and therefre i see an address file 7 then 13 and then FC...something for buying time???

Harriet said...

mcdude,

That's an interesting tidbit. I hadn't thought to check the bankruptcies section as being a possible "prelude" to the foreclosure sales. The bankruptcy laws changed just in time, didn't they . . .

gold_h2o said...

"The bankruptcy laws changed just in time, didn't they . . ."

Yup. They did. IMO, It's no coincidence. The banks saw this coming and pressed for the change.

My prediction is that most will be forced to renegotiate many of the loans....it will be a better alternative than foreclosing on the house....assuming the borrower could even pay a 40 or 50 year mortgage.

McDude said...

You are assuming that the owner can afford the fixed payment, I thinkj you will see more refi's into ARM's until they cant do it anymore..

Also, Harriet, how can I Calculate inventory by months for Charles County?

Harriet said...

mcdude,

You can go here:
http://www.mris.com/reports/stats

and get a rough idea by dividing sales by active listings.

Another interesting way to calculate months of inventory is to look at what's selling in various price ranges. In Charles County, it looks like your best chance for a sale is if you're priced between 200-299K.

McDude said...

I think you mean active by sales? sales by active gets .13 where as active by sales gives 7.18 so is it 13 months worth or 7.18 months worth...

Im inclined to go with 7.18 on detached.

And since 200-300K is not even a 20 yr old single wide.....

11.86 months for detached 400-499K does compute!!!!!

Harriet said...

mcdude,

Correct - actives/sales !