Rising Prices with Slowing Unit-Volume for Vancouver WA Real Estate Sales in June 2016!
Strongly rising sales prices in Vancouver, and even more so in Portland, OR, have been making national news as the fastest (in percentage) price-increase region in the nation. Highlights for June:
- 488 Resale Homes were sold in June 2016, which is 28 FEWER (-5.4%)
homes than were sold in June 2015.
- The 3-Month Moving Average Price Trend Line is still going up - now
at 10.88% over the prior year at $291,763; and the 12-Month Moving Average is now up
9.05%, at
$277,718.
- Short Sale /Pre-Foreclosure property sales were at 19 units (3.9% of total);
a modest increased compared to 17 (3.3% of total) in June of 2015.
- REO/Bank Owned home sales were 16 units (3.3% of total); which is
substantially lower from 28 (5.4% of total) in June of 2015.
- The Inventory for Resale Homes for June edged up again this month, and is now at 1.6 Months of Supply!
The Vancouver / Portland metro area are now at the top of the national list
for fastest rising home prices! The underlying reasons include: Popularity
of this area for Retirees; Mild Weather; relatively Lowest Cost region of the
entire West Coast,
The initial
custom chart below shows the Unit-Sales trends for the Short Term (red line) and Long
Term (blue line).
Vancouver WA Resale Home Sales - Units Sold Trend June 2016
The the continued "flat or, level" nature of the long-term trend for
unit-sales is a strong signal that our local market is now at capacity with
respect to the available inventory of pre-owned homes. This ought to be a clear
signal to home builders that it may be relatively safe at this time to continue
building new residential homes.
This next chart shows the price-trends. With unit-sales at a historically
high level, the continued increase in prices is a logical outcome, as seen
below.
Vancouver WA Resale Home Sales - Average Sales Price Trend
This month 65 properties (13.3%) closed at $200,000 or less when sold; with 124 (25.4%)
sold that were priced $200,000 to $250,000. In comparison with the 2015
measurement, 50.8% of
the June 2015 sales were at $250k or below; while this June that reading is now at
38.7%.
These last three charts (below)
are from the Regional Multiple Listing Service
and show the most recent 12 months real estate market action for
Unit Sales, Average & Median Prices; and Days on Market:
Vancouver Resale Home Sales Inventory & Days on Market Trends
The first graphic is showing the seasonal spread between New Listings and
Pending Listings.
The second chart shows the average price for the new
listings is continuing to be higher than what we've seen for prior months.
The
last chart shows that the past 3 to 4 months have had very brisk sales activity.
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This report and custom charts (prepared by
John Slocum Realtor®, our resident statistician) are based on home sales
posted in the Vancouver MLS system (RMLS), excluding sales of mobile home; and shows the purchase activity since 2009; charting the 3 month Moving average number of sales, and the 12 month Moving average. This "smoothing" of the trend-data helps illustrate the short-term and longer term trends in Vancouver WA's real estate market.
Disclaimer: as with any real estate statistics, we do our best to provide the best representation at the time the data was acquired. We deem the data and reports reliable but not guaranteed.
