Statistical Tables | Panic. Pandemic. "Panicdemic?"
| Trends at a Glance | |||
| (Single-family Homes) | |||
| Feb 20 | Jan 20 | Feb 19 | |
| Median Price: | $945,000 | $875,000 | $860,000 |
| Average Price: | $1,049,497 | $965,842 | $946,104 |
| Home Sales: | 462 | 431 | 532 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 105.0% | 102.3% | 103.8% |
| Days on Market: | 28 | 38 | 30 |
| (Condos/Townhomes) | |||
| Feb 20 | Jan 20 | Feb 19 | |
| Median Price: | $675,000 | $644,000 | $617,500 |
| Average Price: | $693,700 | $660,352 | $641,618 |
| Condo Sales: | 190 | 162 | 180 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 102.1% | 100.3% | 102.8% |
| Days on Market: | 33 | 41 | 29 |
Sales of single-family, re-sale homes were down 13.2%, year-over-year. Sales were up 7.2% from January. There were 462 homes sold last month.
The median sales price for single-family, re-sale homes was up, year-over-year, for the sixth month in a row. It rose 9.9%. It was up 8% from January.
The average sales price was up 10.9%, year-over-year. It was up 8.7% from January.
The sales price to list price ratio rose from 102.3% to 105%. Multiple offers are on the rise.
Homes sold in twenty-eight days, down ten days from January. This is the time from being listed to going under contract.
The average sales prices for condos was up 5.1% from January. It was up 8.1% year-over-year. The median sales price was up 4.8% from January, and, it was up 9.3% year-over-year.
The sales price to list price ratio for condos rose from 100.3% to 102.1%.
Condo sales were up 5.6% from last year, and, they were up 17.3% from January.
Condos sold in thirty-three days.
for single-family homes fell 0.8 of a point to –3.7.
for single-family homes was up 0.5 of a point to –0.3.
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.
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Complete monthly sales statistics for the Alameda County are below. Monthly graphs are available for each city in the county.
| February 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 | $945,000 | $1,049,497 | 462 | 28 | 105.0% | 9.9% | 10.9% | -13.2% | 8.0% | 8.7% | 7.2% |
| Alameda | $1,100,000 | $1,078,346 | 13 | 45 | 113.7% | -6.3% | -8.1% | 550.0% | -11.1% | -9.9% | 62.5% |
| Albany | $1,180,000 | $1,183,750 | 4 | 13 | 113.7% | 0.6% | 0.9% | 100.0% | -21.2% | -21.0% | 100.0% |
| Berkeley | $1,342,500 | $1,429,739 | 24 | 23 | 111.2% | 3.3% | 11.6% | -11.1% | 7.4% | 11.2% | -11.1% |
| Castro Valley | $909,060 | $971,754 | 28 | 33 | 99.1% | -0.6% | 3.4% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 5.4% | 3.7% |
| Dublin | $1,227,500 | $1,257,915 | 26 | 17 | 99.3% | 18.6% | 17.9% | -18.8% | 24.0% | 18.6% | 100.0% |
| Fremont | $1,230,000 | $1,364,718 | 67 | 24 | 99.6% | 10.8% | 16.7% | 21.8% | 10.3% | 9.7% | 36.7% |
| Hayward | $710,000 | $750,590 | 52 | 34 | 100.5% | 1.4% | 2.8% | -10.3% | -1.0% | 0.0% | 4.0% |
| Livermore | $873,000 | $939,295 | 51 | 33 | 98.6% | 9.8% | 3.3% | -12.1% | 4.1% | 2.1% | 2.0% |
| Newark | $978,500 | $997,270 | 20 | 17 | 98.0% | 10.3% | 8.9% | 25.0% | 7.5% | 10.0% | 53.8% |
| Oakland | $790,000 | $909,551 | 101 | 34 | 110.2% | 12.9% | 10.1% | -24.1% | 11.3% | 9.6% | -12.2% |
| Piedmont | $3,050,000 | $3,450,000 | 3 | 9 | 103.4% | 72.7% | 87.8% | -50.0% | -6.2% | 6.2% | 200.0% |
| Pleasanton | $1,200,162 | $1,347,942 | 24 | 15 | 99.7% | 6.3% | 3.5% | -27.3% | -1.2% | -7.9% | 0.0% |
| San Leandro | $700,000 | $748,895 | 19 | 27 | 103.0% | 6.2% | 9.3% | -48.6% | 1.7% | 1.3% | -26.9% |
| San Lorenzo | $722,500 | $680,600 | 10 | 8 | 103.8% | 20.4% | 16.3% | -23.1% | 7.8% | -0.2% | -23.1% |
| Union City | $900,000 | $941,319 | 18 | 32 | 98.4% | 3.3% | 3.7% | 5.9% | 1.1% | 0.7% | 38.5% |
| February 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 | $675,000 | $693,700 | 190 | 33 | 102.1% | 9.3% | 8.1% | 5.6% | 5.1% | 4.8% | 17.3% |
| Alameda | $720,000 | $841,100 | 10 | 18 | 113.7% | -0.8% | 13.1% | -44.4% | 16.9% | -0.7% | 100.0% |
| Albany | $585,000 | $590,000 | 3 | 83 | 99.2% | n/a | n/a | n/a | -25.9% | -26.5% | 50.0% |
| Berkeley | $757,500 | $757,500 | 2 | 7 | 102.1% | 8.2% | -2.5% | -66.7% | -10.7% | 4.5% | -71.4% |
| Castro Valley | $648,000 | $712,061 | 7 | 39 | 101.8% | 13.7% | 10.8% | 40.0% | 19.3% | 8.0% | 75.0% |
| Dublin | $635,000 | $638,732 | 13 | 21 | 100.3% | -15.9% | -9.4% | -23.5% | -6.1% | -8.0% | -7.1% |
| Emeryville | $485,000 | $516,200 | 5 | 25 | 101.9% | -18.1% | -10.5% | -50.0% | -8.7% | -8.0% | -37.5% |
| Fremont | $739,000 | $837,317 | 34 | 27 | 100.6% | 8.7% | 19.4% | 61.9% | 10.3% | -11.0% | 36.0% |
| Hayward | $645,000 | $621,940 | 26 | 25 | 99.3% | 9.0% | 5.8% | 18.2% | 7.4% | 14.2% | 13.0% |
| Livermore | $662,500 | $602,663 | 12 | 76 | 99.3% | 10.6% | 3.1% | -7.7% | 4.0% | 21.6% | 20.0% |
| Newark | $880,000 | $880,000 | 1 | 66 | 100.6% | 47.9% | 40.5% | -83.3% | 50.6% | 58.6% | -83.3% |
| Oakland | $689,000 | $694,974 | 49 | 34 | 105.2% | 10.1% | 4.1% | 14.0% | 6.0% | 10.2% | 40.0% |
| Pleasanton | $632,000 | $663,400 | 10 | 31 | 100.2% | -7.4% | -2.4% | 66.7% | -18.0% | -22.2% | 100.0% |
| San Leandro | $520,000 | $570,420 | 10 | 64 | 98.5% | -1.8% | 12.9% | 25.0% | 3.0% | 4.1% | 0.0% |
| Union City | $605,000 | $662,138 | 7 | 17 | 98.3% | 24.4% | 27.7% | -41.7% | 0.5% | -6.8% | -12.5% |
Feb. 28, 2020-- It would seem that the only thing that is spreading faster than COVID-19 is the fear of the damage being done to economies across the globe. Even though the spread of the virus has not yet quite been called a pandemic, investors have moved from concern to panic, with major stock indexes moving into "correction" territory in just a few short trading sessions. Of course, some pundits have proffered that a part of the mass exit from stocks might be related to the Democratic party front-runner's potential policies, but the effects of any candidates' platform of course can't be realized until after they have actually won both the nomination and the election.
As such, it's all virus, all the time. The market
panic over the possible pandemic left us considering that we need a new word to
describe the market's actions: Panicdemic, defined as a widespread fire sale of
stocks by investors based purely on the fear of what might come to pass. While
imperfect, its as good a portmanteau as any.
Mortgage rates that are likely to creep nearer to
"all-time" lows probably won't do much to improve sales of existing homes, where
inventories of homes for sale are thin, but may enhance the uptrend in sales of
new homes. In January, new home sales rose by 7.9%, a figure plausibly goosed by
favorable weather conditions for the month. The 764,000 annual rate of sale was
good enough to be a 12-plus year high, and lower mortgage helped provide at
least some offset to cover the 13.4% month-to-month increase in the median price
of a home sold. With the bump in sales, the number of units on hand relative to
current sales slid back to 5.1 months, a little lower than is considered
optimal, and there are 323,000 units built and ready to be sold and so this
market segment is in healthier shape for potential homebuyers as the spring
buying season kicks in. Inventories of existing homes for sale seem likely to be
trimmed further if the National Association of Realtors index covering pending
home sales pans out -- the January increase of 5.2% comes at a time of
already-record-low numbers of homes for sale. Hopefully, it is that new listings
are happening but are being snapped up; otherwise there will be even less
available for potential homebuyers to pick over.
Applications for purchase-money mortgages declined for
a third consecutive week, according to the Mortgage Banks Association of
America, falling by 3.4% in the week ending February 14. This time, however,
that decline was accompanied by a decline in applications for refinancing, which
dropped a full 8% for the period. The combined effect left applications down by
6.4% for the week, but with interest rates steady to perhaps slightly lower at
the moment and the end of the month coming up, it's likely that some
fence-sitters will jump into the market again next week.
Unless the economic climate begins to worsen or the
Fed begins to make rumblings about a growing potential for an interest rate cut,
the best interest rates can do is hang about, with perhaps a slow fade at times
of worry or individual reports of softer growth here or there. For the most
part, the available data from here and elsewhere doesn't suggest that a
significant decline (or increase) can be expected anytime really soon, but with
the dark cloud of uncertainty regarding the coronavirus hovering over the globe,
there still a greater chance of lower than higher rates regardless of how strong
the incoming available data might be.
For next week, we think that the week-ending fade for
rates this week will likely pull the averaged offered rate for a conforming
30-year FRM down by a couple of basis points at most, possibly enough to eat up
the four basis point increase tallied over the last two weeks. We'll see what
comes when Freddie Mac reports new data next Thursday morning.
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