Vancouver WA's Real Estate Sales Finished Strong in December 2016!
Having made it to the end of 2016 we have exceeded last year's record by 123 units-sold (+2.52%) . Highlights for December include:
- 429 Resale Homes were sold in December 2016, which is 21 More (5.1%)
homes than were sold in December 2015.
- The 3-Month Moving Average Price Trend Line changed slightly from last month - now
at 12.93% over the prior year at $304,273; and the 12-Month Moving Average is now up
11.74%, at
$295,941.
- Short Sale /Pre-Foreclosure property sales were again at 3 units (0.7% of
total); substantially lower than 12 (2.9% of total) in December of 2015.
- REO/Bank Owned home sales were 11 units (2.6% of total); which is much less than
24 (5.9% of total) in December of 2015.
- The Inventory for Resale Homes for December is again sharply down; now at 0.9 Months of Supply!
The number of pre-owned homes sold has somehow occasionally been reported in
the popular press as slowing down in the fall compared to last year.
However, we know that a comparison of one-month this year to one-month of last
year can leave out a lot of information about the true trend we are in. When we
provide some very, very simple statistical smoothing to create a 3-month trend
line and a 12-month trend line, the strength of the real estate market in 2016
for Vancouver Washington can be clearly seen. In sum, the basic math says that
when the unit-sales are relatively flat; combined with a drastic shrinkage of
available inventory plus rising prices - then the Answer is = we have reached a
practical limit to the number of homes that can be sold.
The rest of our report is aided by our custom charts are
displayed below. The first one shows the Unit-Sales trends for the Short Term (red line) and Long
Term (blue line) up to the current month.
Vancouver WA Resale Home Sales - Units Sold Trend December 2016
The long-term trend closed out the year at 418 units per month; while the
same number last year was 407. This seems relatively "flat" but, within those
numbers there was a lot of sales action.
The next chart shows the trend-lines for the average sales-price. In our
opinion with the slope of the long-term price trend, December's result shows
there remains much upward momentum in this department.
Vancouver WA Resale Home Sales - Average Sales Price Trend
This month 45 properties (10.5%) closed at $200,000 or less when sold; with
108 (25.2%)
sold that were priced $200,000 to $250,000. In comparison with the 2015
measurement, 52.9% of
the December 2015 sales were at $250k or below; while this December that reading is now at
35.3%.
These final three charts shown 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
In the first chart here we see that on a month-by-month basis Vancouver WA
Home Sales did very well the last three months of the year, while New Listings
plummeted.
The second chart shows for December the average list-price for new listings
is slightly above the closed sales price average.
And
finally, the Average Days on Market moved up by a few days however, compared to
previous years the pace in 2016's Fall Season has been brisk.
Thank you for visiting and reading our
real estate market report for Vancouver Washington. We trust you'll contact us with any questions,
or requests for assistance.
PS - 2016's real estate market action is set records for
Vancouver WA. If you ace planning on Selling or, just want to know what
your home is worth - we offer a no-cost, no-obligation
Real Estate Home Price Report, and invite you to try it out
today!
PPS
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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.
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