Statistical Tables | Fed Stands Pat, Rates Dip
| Trends at a Glance | |||
| (Single-family Homes) | |||
| Jul 20 | Jun 20 | Jul 19 | |
| Median Price: | $1,027,500 | $985,000 | $950,000 |
| Average Price: | $1,119,646 | $1,100,786 | $1,054,850 |
| Home Sales: | 1,046 | 804 | 971 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 104.1% | 102.5% | 106.1% |
| Days on Market: | 22 | 25 | 23 |
| (Condos/Townhomes) | |||
| Jul 20 | Jun 20 | Jul 19 | |
| Median Price: | $664,000 | $657,500 | $620,000 |
| Average Price: | $681,569 | $668,970 | $651,807 |
| Condo Sales: | 320 | 218 | 294 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 101.3% | 100.4% | 102.9% |
| Days on Market: | 31 | 29 | 24 |
Sales of single-family, re-sale homes continued to surge in July, jumping 30.1% from June. They were up 7.7% compared to last year. There were 1,046 homes sold in Alameda County last month. The average since 2000 is 921.
The median sales price for single-family, re-sale homes was up, year-over-year, for the eleventh month in a row. It rose 8.2%. It was up 4.3% from June.
The average sales price was up 6.1%, year-over-year. It was up 1.7% from June.
The sales price to list price ratio rose from 102.5% to 104.1%.
Homes sold in twenty-two days, down three days from June. This is the time from being listed to going under contract.
The average sales price for condos rose 1.9% from June. It was up 4.6% year-over-year. The median sales price rose 1% from June, and, it was up 7.1% year-over-year.
The sales price to list price ratio for condos rose from 100.4% to 101.3%.
Condo sales were up 8.8% from last year, and, they were up 46.8% from June.
Condos sold on average in thirty-one days.
for single-family homes rose 2.2 points to –15.7.
for single-family homes was up 0.7 of a point to +3.7.
Our momentum statistics are based on 12-month moving averages to eliminate monthly and seasonal variations.
This is an extraordinarily tough market for buyers. It's important to be calm and realistic. If you don't know what to do or where to begin, give me a call and let's discuss your situation and your options.
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the blue area shows momentum for home sales while the red line shows momentum for pending sales of single-family, re-sale homes. The purple line shows momentum for the median price.
This is an extraordinarily tough market for buyers. It's important to be calm and realistic. If you don't know what to do or where to begin, give me a call and let's discuss your situation and your options.
The real estate market is very hard to generalize. It is a market made up of many micro markets. For complete information on a particular neighborhood or property, call me.
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Complete monthly sales statistics for the Alameda County are below. Monthly graphs are available for each city in the county.
| July Sales Statistics | |||||||||||
| (Single-family Homes) | |||||||||||
| Prices | Unit | Change from last year | Change from last month | ||||||||
| Area | Median | Average | Sales | DOM | SP/LP | Median | Average | Sales | Median | Average | Sales |
| County | $1,027,500 | $1,119,646 | 1,046 | 22 | 104.1% | 8.2% | 6.1% | 7.7% | 4.3% | 1.7% | 30.1% |
| Alameda | $1,252,500 | $1,293,643 | 42 | 17 | 113.7% | 14.1% | 11.3% | 200.0% | 4.4% | 8.2% | 82.6% |
| Albany | $1,050,000 | $1,075,000 | 9 | 15 | 113.7% | -4.3% | -7.5% | -35.7% | -16.7% | -11.0% | -25.0% |
| Berkeley | $1,330,000 | $1,492,676 | 53 | 19 | 111.2% | -6.7% | -2.2% | -10.2% | 4.3% | 12.9% | 82.8% |
| Castro Valley | $905,000 | $973,461 | 47 | 15 | 99.1% | -1.6% | 0.8% | -4.1% | -1.3% | 1.3% | 20.5% |
| Dublin | $1,146,000 | $1,176,827 | 60 | 17 | 99.3% | 7.4% | 6.9% | 42.9% | 13.8% | 9.8% | 66.7% |
| Fremont | $1,246,000 | $1,352,405 | 126 | 23 | 99.6% | 10.8% | 12.5% | 26.0% | 2.6% | 5.7% | 27.3% |
| Hayward | $740,000 | $800,116 | 99 | 26 | 100.5% | 2.7% | 0.3% | 5.3% | -1.2% | -2.0% | 37.5% |
| Livermore | $843,000 | $941,972 | 130 | 17 | 98.6% | 3.8% | -3.0% | 35.4% | -2.0% | -1.2% | 22.6% |
| Newark | $1,050,000 | $1,128,334 | 29 | 20 | 98.0% | 6.1% | 12.3% | -17.1% | 11.7% | 11.2% | 45.0% |
| Oakland | $931,250 | $1,048,239 | 248 | 25 | 110.2% | 10.1% | 6.8% | -3.1% | -6.0% | -3.0% | 26.5% |
| Piedmont | $2,425,000 | $2,420,000 | 9 | 24 | 103.4% | 3.7% | -18.9% | 50.0% | -12.6% | -21.1% | -10.0% |
| Pleasanton | $1,268,000 | $1,433,763 | 103 | 28 | 99.7% | 0.6% | 7.7% | 68.9% | 2.3% | -1.3% | 45.1% |
| San Leandro | $790,000 | $821,491 | 47 | 15 | 103.0% | 9.7% | 8.7% | 14.6% | 6.8% | 5.1% | 14.6% |
| San Lorenzo | $730,000 | $731,836 | 19 | 15 | 103.8% | 7.0% | 7.4% | -29.6% | 2.8% | 2.9% | 26.7% |
| Union City | $952,500 | $988,643 | 21 | 18 | 98.4% | 6.7% | 6.6% | -38.2% | 2.7% | 3.7% | -38.2% |
| July Sales Statistics | |||||||||||
| (Condos/Town Homes) | |||||||||||
| Prices | Unit | Change from last year | Change from last month | ||||||||
| Median | Average | Sales | DOM | SP/LP | Median | Average | Sales | Median | Average | Sales | |
| County | $664,000 | $681,569 | 320 | 31 | 101.3% | 7.1% | 4.6% | 8.8% | 1.9% | 1.0% | 46.8% |
| Alameda | $764,000 | $780,575 | 17 | 29 | 103.0% | 9.1% | 18.1% | -26.1% | 1.8% | 0.7% | 183.3% |
| Albany | $604,500 | $574,833 | 6 | 19 | 99.3% | 15.7% | 8.9% | 20.0% | -4.2% | 0.8% | 500.0% |
| Berkeley | $675,000 | $683,598 | 9 | 26 | 107.3% | -11.5% | -27.7% | 125.0% | -9.5% | -0.6% | 28.6% |
| Castro Valley | $720,000 | $736,166 | 13 | 56 | 102.3% | 20.5% | 20.2% | 116.7% | 12.9% | 17.6% | 160.0% |
| Dublin | $675,000 | $716,391 | 46 | 25 | 100.2% | 0.4% | 6.0% | 109.1% | 1.7% | -1.8% | 91.7% |
| Emeryville | $396,200 | $407,850 | 4 | 14 | 100.7% | -34.8% | -32.9% | -71.4% | -35.9% | -42.5% | -73.3% |
| Fremont | $828,000 | $781,233 | 51 | 30 | 100.8% | 9.7% | 2.6% | 13.3% | 4.5% | 6.2% | 121.7% |
| Hayward | $550,000 | $578,070 | 26 | 40 | 100.6% | 2.9% | 3.7% | -35.0% | 0.8% | -2.7% | -3.7% |
| Livermore | $671,500 | $650,582 | 36 | 44 | 100.3% | 10.1% | 9.1% | 140.0% | 12.4% | 14.1% | 80.0% |
| Newark | $860,000 | $775,722 | 13 | 20 | 101.5% | 56.4% | 32.2% | 160.0% | -4.6% | 6.4% | 116.7% |
| Oakland | $621,000 | $638,636 | 66 | 30 | 102.6% | -1.0% | -6.2% | -14.3% | -10.4% | -0.6% | 43.5% |
| Pleasanton | $737,500 | $709,591 | 16 | 26 | 99.2% | 17.8% | 7.7% | 60.0% | 5.7% | 0.8% | 14.3% |
| San Leandro | $449,000 | $507,111 | 9 | 29 | 101.2% | -2.4% | 2.5% | -50.0% | -4.6% | -8.4% | 12.5% |
| Union City | $590,000 | $601,427 | 7 | 18 | 100.2% | 4.9% | 5.1% | -50.0% | 8.9% | 13.6% | 16.7% |
July 31, 2020
-- With mortgage rates at or near record lows on a number of occasions, it's to
be expected that home sales have picked up, even with the coronavirus making
like challenging for buyers and sellers alike. We learned last week that
existing home sales for June (reflective of activity in late April most of May,
when things were re-opening) played a bit of catch-up, rising by 20.7% to 4.72
million (annualized) units sold after a three-month series of declined. This
week, the National Association of Realtors Pending Home Sales Index posted a
gain of 16.6 percent in June over May. This indicator tracks signed contracts;
not all contracts will make it through to closing. However, if they did, this
would suggest that sales will kick higher for July and likely August, too, and
this would put the annual run rate of sales in the mid-5 million range -- about
where they were to start the year and before the pandemic made a mess of things.
New applications for mortgages softened a bit in the week ending July 24, but as
this is typically the height of vacation season and mortgage rates have been
essentially in the same small range for weeks, there's really not a lot of
urgency for borrowers to jump in for a refinance, and purchase activity remains
more throttled by a lack of inventory to buy than not. According to the Mortgage
Bankers Association, overall applications for mortgage credit slipped 0.8%, with
those for purchase-money mortgages easing 1.5% and refinances by 0.4% for the
week.
Buying plans for autos remained steady, as did those for appliances, while
interest in purchasing houses increased. Record low mortgage rates are likely
the cause of that despite the difficult economic climate for many.
Although there continues to be a fair bit of downward pull on mortgage rates,
they remain stubbornly tethered at about present levels. Presently, the balance
between the poor economic climate and Fed policy stance and bond-buying programs
that should be pulling rates down is being offset to a nearly equal degree by
the risks of making, servicing and investing in mortgages. Although the number
of mortgages in forbearance programs continues to decline ever-so-gently, storm
clouds of potential future loss remain prominent, what with unemployment at
extraordinary levels and the amount and duration of any future fiscal support
for homeowners and renters still unclear. Even if an effective COVID-19 vaccine
was announced tomorrow, it will take a year or more to distribute it on a wide
enough basis to do much good. Between now and then, there remains a lot of
economic difficulty to endure, and this likely spells continuing trouble for
participants in the mortgage market, whether homeowner or investor.
For next week, we think there is a good probability that we'll see at least a
small decline in mortgage rates. Any move of more than a basis point in the
averaged offered rate for a conforming 30-year FRM as reported by Freddie Mac
will be a new record, and that's probably what we'll see come next Thursday
morning. Whatever the decline may be, it would likely be a whole lot more if
risks were abating, but new record lows will have to do, no matter how small the
move into new territory it may be.
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