Statistical Tables | Filling The Holes
| Trends at a Glance | |||
| (Single-family Homes) | |||
| Mar 21 | Feb 21 | Mar 20 | |
| Median Price: | $1,140,000 | $1,100,000 | $979,000 |
| Average Price: | 1,260,162 | 1,210,824 | 1,132,206 |
| Home Sales: | $875 | $611 | $647 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 114% | 110% | 107% |
| Days on Market: | 14 | 18 | 19 |
| (Condos/Townhomes) | |||
| Mar 21 | Feb 21 | Mar 20 | |
| Median Price: | $680,000 | $655,000 | $649,444 |
| Average Price: | 697,024 | 691,885 | 676,641 |
| Condo Sales: | $335 | $250 | $284 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 106% | 104% | 103% |
| Days on Market: | 22 | 28 | 25 |
The median sales price for single-family, re-sale homes set a new high, again. It was up, year-over-year, for the tenth month in a row. It rose 16.4%.
The average sales price set a new high for the sixth time in the past eight
months. It was up, year-over-year, for the nineteenth month in a row. It rose
11.3%.
The sales price to list price ratio rose from 110.1% to 113.6%.
Sales of single-family, re-sale homes continued to rise in March, gaining 35.2% from last year. That’s the ninth month in a row home sales have been higher than the year before. There were 875 homes sold in Alameda County last month. The average since 2000 is 921.
Homes sold in fourteen days. This is the time from being listed to going under contract.
The average sales price for condos was up 3% year-over-year. The median sales price was up 4.7% year-over-year.
The sales price to list price ratio for condos rose from 103.5% to 106%.
Condo sales were up 18% from last year. There were 335 condos sold.
Condos sold on average in twenty-two days.
for single-family homes rose 3.9 points to –3.0.
for single-family homes was up 0.6 of a point to +12.3.
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.
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.
| March 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 | $1,140,000 | $1,260,162 | 875 | 14 | 113.6% | 16.4% | 11.3% | 35.2% | 3.6% | 4.1% | 43.2% |
| Alameda | $1,260,000 | $1,269,082 | 35 | 26 | 106.3% | 3.7% | 0.7% | 40.0% | -4.2% | -4.9% | 34.6% |
| Albany | $1,537,500 | $1,495,625 | 8 | 9 | 120.1% | -23.2% | -25.3% | 700.0% | 12.8% | 10.4% | 33.3% |
| Berkeley | $1,550,000 | $1,741,652 | 68 | 21 | 116.6% | -2.5% | 2.6% | 161.5% | -1.5% | 10.2% | 94.3% |
| Castro Valley | $960,000 | $1,034,772 | 35 | 11 | 103.1% | 0.8% | 8.2% | -2.8% | -0.6% | -14.0% | 118.8% |
| Dublin | $1,375,000 | $1,472,555 | 29 | 5 | 107.2% | 33.5% | 35.5% | -17.1% | 1.9% | 2.4% | -6.5% |
| Fremont | $1,330,000 | $1,505,483 | 85 | 12 | 108.1% | 6.2% | 4.9% | -7.6% | 0.0% | -2.5% | 23.2% |
| Hayward | $871,000 | $922,793 | 60 | 12 | 107.8% | 19.6% | 21.1% | 7.1% | 0.7% | -2.4% | 9.1% |
| Livermore | $1,022,500 | $1,133,487 | 118 | 6 | 107.3% | 25.4% | 24.7% | 73.5% | 3.8% | 0.5% | 107.0% |
| Newark | $1,096,500 | $1,169,304 | 26 | 8 | 106.8% | 7.0% | 11.4% | -10.3% | -4.7% | 2.9% | 18.2% |
| Oakland | $992,500 | $1,130,357 | 242 | 20 | 115.1% | 20.7% | 10.2% | 65.8% | 7.9% | 8.9% | 33.0% |
| Piedmont | $2,700,000 | $2,874,286 | 7 | 18 | 116.8% | -11.4% | -10.5% | -41.7% | 21.8% | 20.9% | 16.7% |
| Pleasanton | $1,481,000 | $1,712,401 | 71 | 7 | 106.1% | 22.4% | 25.8% | 39.2% | 2.1% | 7.0% | 65.1% |
| San Leandro | $832,000 | $857,327 | 44 | 11 | 107.5% | 11.7% | 11.1% | 18.9% | -3.5% | -6.6% | 57.1% |
| San Lorenzo | $814,000 | $816,375 | 16 | 8 | 104.3% | 11.1% | 12.2% | 100.0% | 4.4% | 6.3% | -5.9% |
| Union City | $1,070,000 | $1,089,205 | 29 | 12 | 113.2% | 13.2% | 13.8% | 26.1% | 1.9% | -2.5% | 123.1% |
| March 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 | $680,000 | $697,024 | 335 | 22 | 106.0% | 4.7% | 3.0% | 18.0% | 0.7% | 3.8% | 34.0% |
| Alameda | $702,000 | $750,203 | 23 | 33 | 108.9% | -14.4% | -11.0% | 4.5% | 8.2% | 7.6% | 15.0% |
| Albany | $485,500 | $556,438 | 8 | 87 | 99.1% | -5.7% | -8.0% | 60.0% | -22.0% | -31.9% | 300.0% |
| Berkeley | $831,500 | $790,700 | 10 | 22 | 106.9% | -1.8% | -4.7% | 66.7% | 19.7% | 34.4% | 66.7% |
| Castro Valley | $725,000 | $701,600 | 5 | 9 | 111.0% | 12.4% | 5.4% | -44.4% | -12.5% | -14.2% | -16.7% |
| Dublin | $785,000 | $826,611 | 30 | 9 | 107.1% | -8.5% | -3.1% | 114.3% | -0.6% | -10.8% | 130.8% |
| Emeryville | $563,500 | $597,683 | 18 | 13 | 103.7% | 8.3% | 7.0% | 50.0% | 2.7% | -6.1% | 38.5% |
| Fremont | $722,500 | $767,942 | 36 | 20 | 103.4% | 2.0% | 3.2% | 2.9% | -1.7% | -0.3% | -26.5% |
| Hayward | $615,000 | $587,044 | 34 | 15 | 106.0% | 11.8% | 1.7% | 126.7% | 2.2% | 3.4% | 54.5% |
| Livermore | $762,500 | $719,214 | 28 | 9 | 105.6% | 20.1% | 20.6% | 133.3% | 3.9% | 8.9% | 64.7% |
| Newark | $730,000 | $730,273 | 11 | 15 | 102.6% | 1.4% | -3.3% | -26.7% | -6.5% | -13.1% | 22.2% |
| Oakland | $666,000 | $690,709 | 92 | 30 | 107.3% | -8.1% | -10.7% | 87.8% | 4.9% | 7.6% | 37.3% |
| Pleasanton | $665,000 | $726,153 | 15 | 21 | 104.1% | -9.2% | -3.8% | 275.0% | 2.8% | -6.7% | 50.0% |
| San Leandro | $475,000 | $492,119 | 12 | 22 | 107.6% | -6.9% | -8.7% | 20.0% | 6.6% | -0.2% | 200.0% |
| Union City | $690,000 | $701,890 | 11 | 20 | 106.8% | 23.2% | 36.0% | 120.0% | 1.6% | 6.1% | 22.2% |
April 2, 2021
-- The economy was doing well and actually was starting to pick up some steam in
early 2020 after being damped by all manner of "trade wars" with China and
others back in 2019. Agreements being put in place and lessening of rhetoric set
a new playing field, and uncertainty was beginning to lift, allowing for
acceleration of growth again.
Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, injecting unprecedented uncertainties,
cratering economies across the globe with restrictions on activity and creating
gigantic holes in nearly all facets of every economy. At least initially, those
holes were kept from getting deeper by extraordinary responses by central banks
to create and promote liquidity and market function, and were later joined by
varying rounds of fiscal stimulus to help people and industries bridge the gap
the virus caused.
As beneficial as these programs may be for many, they can have disruptive
effects of their own. Ultra-low rates may be great for borrowers, but bad for
savers; high levels of money sloshing about an economy may lead to frothy asset
prices. Blowout spending programs by the government can add to aggregate demand,
which can outstrip supply, creating price pressures (transient or not) and
conversely, financing all of this by issuing record levels of bonds may see
greater bond supply than investor demand, pressing interest rates higher. To
varying degrees, all of these have been in play so far in 2021, and interest
rates and mortgage rates have firmed up considerably.
For the most part, though, the holes in the economy here and elsewhere remain.
Filling them all completely will take time, but we are starting to see important
steps in that process; in fact, these holes in many ways are filling up faster
than had generally been expected. For example, the Federal Reserve has ratcheted
up its expectations for growth and inflation notably over the last few meetings;
the housing market went from a pretty pedestrian rate of existing home sales and
relatively modest price gains to 14 year highs for sales and 15% annual rates of
price increases.
As expected, construction spending throttled back in February as wicked winter
weather curtailed activity. Overall outlays for construction projects declined
by 0.8%, dragged down by a 0.2% decline in residential projects, a 1% decline in
non-residential spending and a 1.7% drop in public-works project outlays.
President Biden has just outlined a plan to spend a couple of trillion dollars
on infrastructure spending, but a review of the bill suggest that perhaps only
half of the dollars are actually aimed at roads, bridges, rails and the like.
Regardless of that, spending for housing will show a sharp revival for March and
non-residential will probably also recover a bit, too.
The National Association of Realtors index of Pending Home Sales dropped by
10.6% in February. Weather plays a role here -- few want to venture out in thigh
deep snow or bone-chilling cold to see homes for sale -- but a serious lack of
inventory to review even if one wanted to venture out, prices that are rising
quickly and financing costs that were firming during the month were also likely
deterrents to getting a contract to buy an existing home.
The rise in mortgage rates has leveled off, at least for now, but the increase
has had the expected tempering effect on mortgage applications. The Mortgage
Bankers Association reported another 2.2% decline in requests for mortgage
credit in the week ending March 26, the seventh decline in the last eight weeks.
Applications for purchase-money mortgages eased by 1.5%, breaking a four-week
string of increases, while those for refinancing slid another 2.5%, also making
it declines in 7 of the last 8 week. Refi activity is approximately at a May
2020 level, when mortgage rates were last at about present levels, give or take
a few basis points.
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