Morgan Hill Seller’s Market?
Date: Wednesday March 3, 2010Posted in: real estate, Morgan Hill, seller's market
What a difference a year makes! A year ago many residences sat languishing on the market while buyers were waiting on the sidelines. Fast forward to the present day: large numbers of well-qualified, motivated buyers are combing the sparse south Santa Clara County real estate inventory and now sellers are sitting on the sidelines! With the low real estate inventory in Morgan Hill and the rest of south Santa Clara County, is it a seller’s market? Let’s look at the data:
The first graph shows the number of residences for sale in Morgan Hill. As can be seen clearly, the number in the past few months has been quite low relative to the past two years. This data is backed up by the second graph which shows the months of inventory for active residential listings on the Morgan Hill real estate market. The months of inventory is the number of months it would take to sell all of the inventory currently on the market using current number of sales per month to determine this number.
With these two graphs in mind, sellers should feel confident in listing their homes in this current market. However, as with any market, pricing is the number one factor in whether your home will sell and how quickly it will sell.
The third graph shows the average sale price for single family residences in Morgan Hill over the past two years. Although it does look like prices have inched up over the past few months, sellers should beware asking exhorbitant prices for their homes - if they are serious about selling their home.
Inventory will gradually increase over the next months in Morgan Hill. But for those sellers currently on the market with a well-priced listing — enjoy your opportunity to choose from the multiple offers you are quickly receiving!
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South County Real Estate Sales Week of June 15 - 21, 2009
Date: Wednesday June 24, 2009Posted in: real estate, Morgan Hill, South Santa Clara County, San Martin, Gilroy, statistics
Sales slowed up a bit this past week in the south Santa Clara County towns of Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy but many of the homes sold had been on the market at least 100 days - so sellers take heart and hang in there! There were 33 residences that went from active to pending status as compared to last week’s 46. Of all the sales this past week, 30 were single family homes and 3 were townhouses/condominiums. The highest priced listing sold last week was 3480 Bluegrass Court in Morgan Hill, a 2630 s.f. home on a 28,750 s.f. lot in Holiday Lake Estates priced at $950,000 that had been on the market for 395 days. The lowest priced listing sold last week was a bank-owned condo at 1271 Juniper Dr. #9 in Gilroy, a 742 s.f. condo priced at $98,000 (below $100,000!) Sixty percent of the sales this week were priced under $500,000 and10% were above $800,000.
Of these sales, the list price ranges were:
Below $200,000 = 4 sales (12% of total)
$200,000 - $500,000 = 16 sales (48% of total)
$500,000 - $800,000 = 10 sales (30% of total)
$800,000 - $1,200,000 = 3 sales (10% of total)
As of June 21, 2009, there are 332 residential (single family homes and condos) listings active on the market in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy. There are currently 380 pending residential listings. Therefore, 53% 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.
Twenty-nine 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 11.45 weeks to sell all south county listings. Therefore, as of this past week, we have 3 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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Date: Tuesday June 16, 2009Posted in: real estate, Morgan Hill, San Martin, Gilroy, statistics, listings, pending sales
Sales jumped up this past week in the south Santa Clara County towns of Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy, although no homes priced above $900,000 were sold. There were 46 residences that went from active to pending status as compared to last week’s 32. Of all the sales this past week, 39 were single family homes and 7 were townhouses/condominiums. The highest priced listing sold last week was 18175 Carriage Drive in Morgan Hill, a 3728 s.f. home priced at $899,000 that had been on the market for 343 days. The lowest priced listing sold last week was a bank-owned condo at 7598 Monterey Street, #260 in Gilroy, a 706 s.f., 3 year old condo priced at $110,000 and located in the new mixed used development in downtown Gilroy. Sixty-three percent of the sales this week were priced under $500,000 and only 4% were above $800,000.
Of these sales, the list price ranges were:
Below $200,000 = 2 sales (4% of total)
$200,000 - $500,000 = 27 sales (59% of total)
$500,000 - $800,000 = 15 sales (33% of total)
$800,000 - $1,200,000 = 2 sales (4% of total)
As of June 7, 2009, there are 336 residential (single family homes and condos) listings active on the market in Morgan Hill, San Martin and Gilroy. There are currently 388 pending residential listings. Therefore, 54% 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.
Seventeen 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 19.8 weeks to sell all south county listings. Therefore we have 5 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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