Clark County WA Real Estate For Sale - January 2022 Report

Real Estate Closed Sale Prices rise slightly; with Unit Sales Slowing being Constrained by Lack of Inventory for Clark County WA in January 2022.

Sales Prices rose modestly to achieve another new High. Seasonally we expect the number of Units-Sold per-month to be falling - although this year's number is much less than last year's - very likely due to the greatly reduced available Inventory for home buyers to shop. Here are the highlights for this month:  

• Average-Sales Price moved up just over $4k+ finishing up at $555,946; with the 12-month/long-term trend line up 18.48% year-over-year;  and the 3-Month Moving Average up 18.05% from this time last year; 
   
• The Inventory for Resale Property moved up only 0.1 Month's worth, ending at the super-low 0.3 Month's worth of Supply;
   
• Approximately 390 Resale Properties were sold/closed, which is about 42 less (9.72%) properties than in 2021; and 276 fewer than last month;
   
• REO/Bank Owned property sales were 0 units (0% of total); down from 2 (0.46%) in 2021; 
   
• Short Sale /Pre-Foreclosure property sales were 0 units (0% of total); no change from 0 (0%) last year.

The Freddie Mac's report on the 30-year-fixed mortgage loan interest rate (nationwide average) at month-end, rose strongly ending at a monthly average of 3.45% ; compared to 2.74% for January 2021. Rates have risen strongly this first month of the year, and are expected to have continued upward pressure in the near term.

Next up is a Custom Chart (below) I created to show Property-Sales Unit-Volume (number of properties sold) with short term (in Red) and long term (12-month moving average in Blue) trends: 

Clark County Real Estate - Units Sold Trend January 2022

The short-term trend is both in the stronger-part of its seasonal decline, compounded by the much lower level of closings seen from the dearth of Inventory. The long-term trend-line is stubbornly in a plateau however, this cannot last much longer at a continued slower pace of sales. This month's sales for the County is behind last year's total home sales by 42 properties (-9.72%).

Continuing on is my chart showing the Average Real Estate Sales Price, the short-term line climbing slightly to a new high; with the long-term trend also moving up to a new high: 

Clark County Real Estate Sales - Average Sales Price Trend January 2022

Clearly Prices over the past 12 months have risen strongly overall at a pace not far under 20%. With Interest rates jumping up recently, we expect prices to be facing stronger headwinds in the near-term.
 
Clark County's Average Residential Property Sales Price (using the most recent 3 months) is now $555,946; which is approximately $85,025 (+18.05%) higher than this time last year.

The remaining collection of graphs for this real estate sales report come from RMLS and show:

Clark County Real Estate Sales Inventory
& Days on Market - January 2022

New Listings and  Pending Sales both rose at about the same pace this month; with Closed Sales quite a bit lower than the previous month. With New Listings not moving up strongly so far,  Active Inventory only moved slightly up to 0.3 month's of supply. 

The second graph shows the Average Price for Closed Sales hitting a new high; and the Average Listing Price coming in modestly below that number.

Finally, the Average Days on Market increased by 1 day finishing at 23 days; and Median Days on Market fell one day ending at 6 days. The pace of this market is still quick for this typically slower time of year.  

Thank you for visiting our Real Estate Market Report for Clark County WA. Please let me know if you have any questions or need help with your home or condo sale or purchase in 2022!
 

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The information and charts in this Clark County WA real estate update (prepared by Clark County WA Real Estate Sales Realtor, John Slocum, 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.