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

Sales remained steady in the south Santa Clara County towns of Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy during the week of September 14 through September 20.  There were 33 residences that went from active to pending status as compared to the previous week’s 31.  This is down from the typical number of sales this summer when weekly sales numbered in the 40s.  Of all the sales this past week, 29 were single family homes and 4 were townhouses/condominiums. 

The highest priced listing sold last week was 1026 Llagas Road in Morgan Hill, a 4,893 s.f. bank-owned home on a 90,604 s.f. lot priced at $899,000.  This home had been on the market for 44 days.  1026 Llagas Rd

The lowest priced listing sold last week was also a bank-owned condo at 7598 Monterey Street in Gilroy, a one bedroom/one bathroom priced at $78,900.  This 3 year old property had been on the market for 54 days.7598 Monterey St.

Seventy-three percent of the sales this week were priced under $500,000 and only 6% were above $800,000. 

Of these sales, the list price ranges were:

Less than $200,000 = 5 sales (15% of total)

$200,000 - $500,000 = 19 sales (58% of total)

$500,000 - $800,000 = 7 sales (21% of total)

$800,000 - $1,200,000 = 2 sale (6% of total)

As of September 20, 2009, there are 287 residential (single family homes and condos) listings active on the market in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy.  There are currently 378 pending residential listings.  Therefore, 57% of the total listings are pending under contract as of this date.  However, many of the pendings are short sales and therefore take a long time to close.  This keeps our pending percentage up artificially high. 

Only 15 residential real estate listings closed escrow during the past week in the south county towns of Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy.  If homes continued to sell at this rate it would take 19 weeks to sell all south county listings.  Therefore, as of this past week, we have 4.8 months supply of inventory. 

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



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