Clark County WA Real Estate Sales - June 2020 Report

Closed Unit-Home Sales Still Lagging Year-to-Date With Prices More-Strongly Rising for Clark County WA in June 2020.

Closed sales did pick up this month but lower than last year's posting; and year-to-date numbers are off 13%. Prices increased more rapidly this month, with the super-low Inventory and record-low interest rates. Here are the key points for this month's report: 

• Average-Sales Price moved up to $427,280 - another all-time high, with the 12-month/long-term trend line up 5.06% year-over-year;  and the 3-Month Moving Average up 7.01% from this time last year; 
   
• The Inventory for Resale Real Estate remained at a super low 1.1 Month level of Supply;
   
• Approximately 573 Resale Properties were sold/closed, which is about 87 fewer (-13.18%) homes than in 2019; and 112 more than last month;
   
• REO/Bank Owned property sales were 3 units (0.52% of total); no change from 3 (0.45%) in 2019; 
   
• Short Sale /Pre-Foreclosure property sales were 2 unit (0.35% of total); up from 0 (0%) in 2019.

The Home Loan Mortgage 30-year-fixed loan interest rate (nationwide average) at month-end, slipped to 3.16% (another All-Time Low!) according to Freddie Mac; compared to 3.80% for June 2019. We expect rates to stay this low for several more months.

We now come to the custom chart showing Unit-Volume (number of properties sold) action with short term (in Red) and long term (12-month moving average in Blue) trends: 

Clark County Home Sales - Units Sold Trend June 2020

Unit-sales results this year finds us with the short-term trend below the long-term trend by 50 units; whereas last year the short-term line was above the long-term line by 63 units! Pending sales have picked up but not enough to quickly close the accumulated gap.   

The Average Home Sales Price custom chart is up next showing the current and past Home-Sales-Price results for both short-term and long-term: 

Clark County Home Sales - Average Sales Price Trend June 2020

The rising Price Trend got steeper this month; no doubt a result of lower available new listings and strong-enough pending sales. Without a stronger upward move in newly listed homes and condos the prices will likely keep moving strongly higher.
 
The Average Sales Price (using 3 months) for Clark County is now $427,280; which is approximately $28,005 higher than this time last year.

The remaining charts come from RMLS and show:

Clark County Home Sales Inventory
& Days on Market - June 2020

New Listings came in at the same lever; while Pending Sales and Closed Sales both moved up. Available Inventory remained the same however, and is at an extremely low level. 

The second graph shows Prices for both Closed Sales and Average Sales each hitting their highest one-month mark ever!

Finally, the Average Days on Market moved up by a few days; while the Median Days on the Market fell slightly. Both are in the range we usually see in early Summer.

Thank you for visiting our Market report for Home Sales in Clark County WA. Please let me know if you have any questions or need help with your home or condo!
 

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PS - The home sale market is changing, prices are still rising, with loan costs presently at RECORD low levels, keeping this an excellent time to List and Sell Your Property with Our Team; or, at least find out what your property is worth!  We offer a no-cost, no-obligation Clark County WA Home Valuation, and invite you to try it out!

PPS - Looking to buy a home or property reasonably soon?  Interest rates are still at historically low rates.  You are invited to visit our web-page for Clark County WA Homes For Sale where it is Quite Easy to search by City, Neighborhood or by Category, with homes and real estate listings from the entire RMLS.  Sign-up Not Required!  The property and home listings shown are provided via many updates each day, and you will be e-mailed hourly with any new matches once you've signed up for a home search.

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The information and charts in this Clark County WA real estate update (prepared by Vancouver WA Real Estate Sales Broker, John Slocum, CRS, SFR, our resident statistician) are based on home sales recorded in the Clark County WA 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 Clark County'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 and compiled.  The data and reports are deemed reliable but not guaranteed.