China
and oil grabbed all of the financial headlines this month. What about
the Fairfield County real estate market? Glad you asked. Public Open
Houses are getting traffic. Pendings are up (17 versus 11 in the last 30
days) This is what is happening in the market in our area:
- Area Sales: We told you Stamford, Darien, Wilton, Norwalk, Westport, Weston and Ridgefield collectively show the number of sales is up 4.54% and $ volume up 3.3%. When you take out Westport and Ridgefield and add Greenwich the county sales are up 9.3% and dollar volume down 3.1%
- New Canaan market: 243 house sales was the same as last year. This is 21 houses above our 10 year average of 222 single family home sales.
- New Canaan Inventory: We begin the year with 188 houses, up 47 houses and 33.3% year over year. Pretty soon we will stop talking about last year and accept that a range of 188-340 is the new normal
- Condos: Much attention has been placed on the decrease in sales: down 37.7% for the year. But as we said last month 2014 was exceptional and a statistical aberration. We came in at the new normal level for sales (38 sales vs. the 9 year median of 45) and inventory (40 active vs the 9 year median of 47).
- Pendings: Pendings are up in New Canaan houses (16 vs. 12 at year end) & down for condos (2 vs 5).
Interest rates will rise this Spring and the
psychological impact cannot be overestimated. A rising tide could impart
a newfound sense of urgency to both buyers and sellers. Sellers may
accept the diminished buying power and borrowing power of buyers.
Lookers, fearing a market slipping away from them, may become buyers.
We have the inventory; tThis Spring should see more deals at all levels.
Below is a link to
our January Market Report, which includes detailed information on the
market this past year. If you would like to discuss the report, or if
you have any other questions, feel free to contact us at 203-247-4700
(JE) or 203-247-5999 (SE)
.
Best regards,
John and Susan
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