South County Real Estate Today, Gretchen Merrick, real estate, Realtor, median price, average price, days on market, Santa Clara County, South County, Morgan Hill, San Jose, Gilroy, San Martin, Bay Area, property, properties, home, house, buy, sell, Grethen Merrick

Whew!  The market was busy in south county last week!  The number of residential sales jumped in the south Santa Clara County towns of Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy.  There were 44 residences that went from active to pending status as compared to 38 last week.  Of all the sales last week, 39 were single family homes and 5 were townhouses/condominiums.  69% of the sales were priced below $500,000.

Of these sales, the list price ranges were:

Below $200,000 = 2 sales (5% of total)

$200,000 - $500,000 = 28 sales (64% of total)

$500,000 - $800,000 = 9 sales (20% of total)

$800,000 - $1,200,000 = 4 sales (9% of total)

$1,200,000 - $2,000,000 = 1 sale (2% of total)

As of February 8, 2009, there are 569 residential (single family homes and condos) listings active on the market in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy.  There are currently 261 pending residential listings.  Therefore, 31% of the total listings are pending under contract as of this date.  Many of the pendings are short sales and therefore take a long time to close.  This could keep our pending percentage up artificially high. 

Tune in next week for an update on the number of sales in South Santa Clara County!



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