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Weekly Market Report
Hello once again everyone and welcome back to my latest report on market activity for the Lake Oroville real estate market.
As has been the case over the last number of weeks, this weeks market activity is extremely light. While it is good for sellers that values have improved, it would not be a healthy situation if the weekly number of homes selling stays at the level at which it currently finds itself. In fact, sales numbers for the first two months of 2014 have Oroville homes sales on the slowest pace in over 6 years.
It will be interesting to see Continue reading
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Is It That Time Already?
By: Mark Wisterman
Here we are once again to take a look at the latest weekly market activity for the Lake Oroville homes sales market.
As with nearly every week for the past two months there is certainly nothing earth-shattering going on in the Oroville real estate market. Thanks to a couple of sales in the higher price ranges, the average sold price and the total value of Oroville area homes sold looks to be improving. But be careful not to get fooled here. With so few homes selling, it is very easy for a couple of large sells to tilt the numbers.
If you are wondering where the sales numbers may go in the coming weeks keep your eye on the very last line of the chart. The number of pending sales is a great future indicator of the trend we will see 30-45 days from now regarding completed sales of Oroville homes. It has been flat for weeks now, indicating that we will not be seeing any significant increases in closed sales in the near term.
This is the 5th week in a row that the gap has grown between what an home in the Lake Oroville real estate market was originally priced at and at what price it actually sold. This gap may continue to increase as there is still a number of homes coming to market that have been……well, let’s just say,…………optimistically priced.
| MLS Stats for Oroville Area | Week Ending | Week Ending | Week Ending | % Change | 6 Month | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9/26/2013 | 10/3/2013 | 10/10/2013 | Previous Week | Average | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Total Sales | 14 | 11 | 9 | -18.18% | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # REO/Short Sales Sold (SS) | 7 | 5 | 1 | -80.00% | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| % Sales that are REO/SS | 50.00% | 45.45% | 11.11% | -75.56% | 36.24% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Avg. List Price | $127,479 | $140,205 | $196,031 | 39.82% | $140,198 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Avg. Sold Price | $127,007 | $134,536 | $189,617 | 40.94% | $135,787 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sold Price % of Listing Price | 99.63% | 95.96% | 96.73% | 0.80% | 96.80% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Avg. Original List Price | $136,893 | $151,800 | $217,800 | 43.48% | $148,463 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sold Price % of Original Price | 92.78% | 88.63% | 87.06% | -1.77% | 92.92% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Avg. Days On The Market | 123 | 56 | 83 | 48.21% | 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total Sales Volume | $1,426,100 | $1,479,900 | $1,706,550 | 15.32% | $1,544,030 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Single Family Listings | 184 | 177 | 175 | -1.13% | 172 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Days of Inventory Left | 92 | 113 | 136 | 20.84% | 120 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Pending Sales | 77 | 71 | 72 | 1.41% | 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Data compiled from the CRMLS multiple listing service for single family homes in the | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greater Oroville real estate market area including the areas of Oroville, Palermo, Concow, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Time Flies- Another Week Behind Us
By: Mark Wisterman
The preliminary market results are in for home sales in the Lake Oroville real estate for the most recent week.
I say preliminary because I discovered a bit of a glitch in how I have been reporting the weekly home sales numbers for the Oroville market. The week that I report on runs from Friday through Thursday of each week. What I discovered is that some agents are not getting their sales logged into our multiple listing service in time for me to pick them up for my weekly report causing an under reporting issue for Lake Oroville area home sales. To correct this issue I will be revising the previous weekly Oroville home sales numbers at the time that I gather data on the recent weekly market numbers. I want you to have the most current and relevant data as you can possibly have and this new reporting standard will help with that.
Speaking of current and relevant numbers, I am making big change in this weekly report chart. Beginning with this report I am no longer providing data on the number of bank-owned Oroville homes for sale or the number of homes for sale in the Oroville market that are considered short sales. The reason for this is that the current level of these homes on the market is insignificant and they are no longer making a major impact on the market. I am still tracking the numbers but will no longer report them on this site.
In place of these numbers I have added something that I think, going forward, will provide more perspective on the market than the reporting of REO do. Continue reading
Fed Watch
By: Mark Wisterman
Tomorrow is being heralded as a big day on Wall Street as the Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce that they will begin pulling back from their policy of artificially suppressing interest rates at the current level.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke achieved exactly what he set out to do when he rattled the markets in May with talk of tapering. Here’s how:
1. He got the market’s attention that it was not going to go on forever, as some seemed to think, and …
2. He set the stage for very little to happen tomorrow if they do indeed announce the pull back.
Although about the only surprise will be if the Fed continues the current levels of bond purchasing, there are going to be oodles of second guessers, complainers, and Monday morning quarterbacks who will be offering one of following Goldilock’s style complaints:
1. The reduction in bond purchases is too large.
2. The reduction in bond purchases is too small.
3. The reduction should not happen at all because not everything in the economy is “just right.”
Since everyone will have an opinion on this I guess I get to tell you mine:
From a real estate standpoint it is time to end this program, and the sooner the better. Thanks to this program and, the cruddy economy that has also forced interest rates down, the populace has become spoiled and thinks that interest rates above 4.5% are high. The free market must be allowed to function FREELY. That is the ONLYway to have long term health in the housing market.
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YAWN!! Another Week Has Passed
By: Mark Wisterman
The sleepy real estate market in the Lake Oroville area continues to hit the “snooze” alarm as the market seems to be sleep walking through yet another month.
When a market turns as this one has over the past few weeks some may think that the buyers are beginning to leave the market. If the recent activity in our office is any indication what is going on in overall home sales activity in the Oroville real estate market, that thinking would be incorrect. For example, I have shown more buyers Oroville homes for sale in the past couple weeks than I have at any other time this year. The buyers are not sitting on the sidelines worrying about interest rate increases. The fact is that Oroville buyers are now shopping more cautiously, and are beginning to consider the actual value of the homes at which they are looking, not wanting to overpay for their next home.
So how do more Oroville homes get sold at a quicker pace? Continue reading