Extended Up-Market for Vancouver WA Real Estate Sales in September 2016!
The 2016 and 2015 sales seasons have been Epic for real estate sales in Vancouver WA, with the slight, quirky slow month of July has been turned-around in both August and now September. Highlights for this September include:
- 445 Resale Homes were sold in September 2016, which is 6 More (1.4%)
homes than were sold in September 2015.
- The 3-Month Moving Average Price Trend Line is still going up - now
at 12.9% over the prior year at $307,083; and the 12-Month Moving Average is now up
10.8%, at
$287,590.
- Short Sale /Pre-Foreclosure property sales were at 5 units (2.02% of total);
a nice decrease compared to 14 (3.19% of total) in September of 2015.
- REO/Bank Owned home sales were 9 units (2.02% of total); which is
slightly lower from 14 (3.19% of total) in September of 2015.
- The Inventory for Resale Homes for September headed back down, and is now at 1.6 Months of Supply!
This past summer home sales season has been very busy, to say the least!
Although the popular press has reported a slowdown, we think more correctly what
we've seen is a backlog of sales that have not been processed in the more
typical time-frames owing to a lack of Appraisers and other personnel to work
the home loan / financing part of the equation.
When using our charting of the Short Term that is a 3-month Average; and
the Long Term which is a 12-month average, we can see that 2016 was just as
strong a home sales year as was 2015.
Our custom chart below 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 September 2016
With the long-term trend now going "sideways" (see above) for several
months it shows that the unit-sales volume has not kept the upward pace of the
past two years however, it has also not yet decreased such to see a downward
trend.
This next chart shows the
trends for the average sales-price. Unlike last year's pause in the price
rise at this time of the year, we are continuing to see strong upward momentum,
and are clearly in record-setting territory.
Vancouver WA Resale Home Sales - Average Sales Price Trend
This month 42 properties (9.3%) closed at $200,000 or less when sold; with 113 (25.1%)
sold that were priced $200,000 to $250,000. In comparison with the 2015
measurement, 53.99% of
the September 2015 sales were at $250k or below; while this September that reading is now at
34.4%.
Shown below, the final three charts 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 of three charts shows how closings have been consistent over the
past seven months; and that this most recent month has a significant drop in New
Listings.
The second chart shows the variability on a month-to-month basis but, within
that a general upward trend can be seen in the most recent months.
Although the sales pace slowed slightly for September, we are still in a time
where home sales are occurring quite rapidly on average.
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real estate market report for Vancouver Washington, and please contact us with any questions,
or requests for assistance.
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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.
