Statistical Tables | Filling the Holes
| Trends at a Glance | |||
| (Single-family Homes) | |||
| Mar 21 | Feb 21 | Mar 20 | |
| Average Price: | $1,156,587 | $1,054,166 | $897,264 |
| Median Price: | $900,000 | $805,000 | $710,500 |
| Home Sales: | 983 | 669 | 752 |
| DOM: | 15 | 20 | 27 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 107.9% | 105.1% | 102.3% |
| (Condos/Townhomes) | |||
| Mar 21 | Feb 21 | Mar 20 | |
| Average Price: | $583,458 | $549,265 | $561,027 |
| Median Price: | $530,000 | $491,500 | $482,000 |
| Condo Sales: | 266 | 220 | 232 |
| DOM: | 17 | 28 | 22 |
| SP/LP Ratio: | 104.5% | 102.4% | 101.2% |
The median sales price for single-family, re-sale homes set another new high in March, for the sixth time in the past thirteen months. It was up 26.7% compared to last March, and, it was up 11.8% from February.
The average sales price also set a new high for the seventh time in the last thirteen months. It rose 28.9% year-over-year. It gained 9.7% from February.
The sales price to list price ratio for homes rose to 107.9% from 105.1%.
Sales of single-family, re-sale homes jumped 46.9% from February. They were up 30.7% year-over-year. There were 983 homes sold last month. The average monthly sales since 2005 is 907.
Days on market, or how long it takes to go from being listed to being under contract, for homes fell five days to fifteen days.
The median sales price for condos was up 7.8% from February, and, it was up 10% year-over-year. The average price was up 6.2% from February, and, it was down 4% year-over-year.
Condo sales were up 20.9% from February, and, they were up 14.7% year-over-year. There were 266 condo sales last month.
The sales price to list price ratio for condos went from 102.4% to 104.5%.
Days on market, or how long it takes to go from being listed to being under contract, fell from twenty-eight days to seventeen days for condos.
for single-family homes rose 3 points to -2.5.
for single-family homes rose 1 point to +14.4.
Our momentum statistics are based on 12-month moving averages to eliminate monthly and seasonal variations.
momentum by using a 12-month moving average to eliminate seasonality. By comparing this year's 12-month moving average to last year's, we get a percentage showing market momentum.
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 average price.
As you can see, pricing momentum has an inverse relationship to sales momentum.
Remember, the real estate market is a matter of neighborhoods and houses. No two are the same. For complete information on a particular neighborhood or property, call me.
P.S. The FHA requires all condo projects to be re-certified before they will make a loan. To find out if the condo project you're interested in is eligible, go here: https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/condlook.cfm.
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.
If I can help you devise a strategy, call or click the buying or selling link in the menu to the left.
Complete monthly sales statistics for Contra Costa County are below. Monthly graphs are available for each city in the county.
| March Sales Statistics | |||||||||||
| (Single-family Homes) | |||||||||||
| Prices | Units | Change from last year | Change from last month | ||||||||
| Median | Average | Sold | DOM | SP/LP | Median | Average | Sold | Median | Average | Sold | |
| County | $900,000 | $1,156,587 | 983 | 15 | 107.9% | 26.7% | 28.9% | 30.7% | 11.8% | 9.7% | 46.9% |
| Alamo | $2,425,000 | $2,911,294 | 26 | 14 | 103.1% | 20.4% | 42.5% | 44.4% | 3.8% | 9.0% | 85.7% |
| Antioch | $575,000 | $577,672 | 93 | 15 | 106.0% | 21.1% | 19.9% | 29.2% | 7.5% | 1.7% | 52.5% |
| Bay Point | $500,000 | $597,850 | 8 | 12 | 110.9% | 11.7% | 24.7% | -33.3% | -5.7% | 16.4% | 14.3% |
| Blackhawk | $1,715,000 | $1,825,727 | 11 | 38 | 97.8% | 5.9% | 20.4% | 10.0% | 22.3% | 30.8% | 83.3% |
| Brentwood | $812,500 | $870,280 | 102 | 12 | 103.6% | 37.9% | 39.4% | 39.7% | 12.1% | 13.5% | 47.8% |
| Clayton | $1,050,000 | $1,033,703 | 15 | 8 | 105.3% | 19.0% | 14.2% | 36.4% | 35.5% | 23.1% | 66.7% |
| Concord | $795,000 | $841,082 | 105 | 9 | 109.7% | 15.6% | 17.3% | 34.6% | 4.6% | 9.6% | 31.3% |
| Danville | $1,745,000 | $1,879,932 | 108 | 14 | 107.5% | 21.0% | 23.9% | 63.6% | 2.0% | -1.6% | 83.1% |
| Discovery Bay | $755,000 | $769,695 | 30 | 28 | 101.9% | 21.8% | 16.3% | -14.3% | 3.5% | -7.4% | 7.1% |
| El Cerrito | $1,302,500 | $1,296,091 | 22 | 16 | 130.5% | 36.2% | 36.2% | 37.5% | 5.0% | 214.3% | 214.3% |
| El Sobrante | $867,500 | $886,500 | 12 | 21 | 111.3% | 37.6% | 36.3% | 140.0% | 26.2% | 21.4% | 100.0% |
| Hercules | $842,500 | $886,300 | 10 | 7 | 104.9% | 10.1% | 19.5% | 0.0% | -8.4% | -4.3% | 11.1% |
| Kensington | $1,343,375 | $1,432,792 | 6 | 14 | 119.1% | 18.3% | 18.3% | 20.0% | -11.4% | -11.4% | -40.0% |
| Lafayette | $1,900,025 | $2,041,988 | 27 | 11 | 104.8% | 18.8% | 18.4% | 92.9% | 6.4% | -0.1% | 0.0% |
| Martinez | $825,000 | $858,344 | 33 | 30 | 106.8% | 20.6% | 25.2% | 22.2% | 4.8% | 4.6% | 26.9% |
| Moraga | $1,928,500 | $2,042,417 | 12 | 14 | 106.7% | 25.5% | 20.0% | 33.3% | 19.0% | 17.2% | -7.7% |
| Oakley | $645,000 | $662,137 | 47 | 37 | 106.1% | 29.5% | 28.4% | 30.6% | 0.8% | 1.8% | 42.4% |
| Orinda | $1,915,000 | $2,054,716 | 29 | 26 | 107.1% | 2.0% | 9.8% | 45.0% | 2.8% | 0.8% | 163.6% |
| Pinole | $850,000 | $804,682 | 11 | 11 | 110.1% | 35.8% | 30.5% | 10.0% | 23.6% | 21.5% | -8.3% |
| Pittsburg | $610,000 | $629,375 | 49 | 12 | 106.2% | 30.1% | 30.8% | 32.4% | 8.0% | 5.8% | 69.0% |
| Pleasant Hill | $1,007,500 | $1,023,485 | 38 | 10 | 110.2% | 19.6% | 10.3% | 111.1% | 10.2% | 6.2% | 90.0% |
| Richmond | $718,000 | $742,461 | 52 | 15 | 109.8% | 30.5% | 18.8% | -10.3% | 24.5% | 22.7% | 20.9% |
| Rodeo | $677,500 | $655,833 | 6 | 11 | 102.2% | 41.1% | 27.8% | -14.3% | 27.8% | 21.9% | 20.0% |
| San Ramon | $1,587,500 | $1,645,326 | 62 | 8 | 112.2% | 27.0% | 23.2% | 0.0% | 13.0% | 11.4% | 77.1% |
| Walnut Creek | $1,537,500 | $1,578,116 | 56 | 13 | 109.7% | 26.8% | 23.5% | 64.7% | 18.7% | 12.8% | 51.4% |
| March Sales Statistics | |||||||||||
| (Condos/Townhomes) | |||||||||||
| Prices | Units | Change from last year | Change from last month | ||||||||
| Median | Average | Sold | DOM | SP/LP | Median | Average | Sold | Median | Average | Sold | |
| County | $530,000 | $583,458 | 266 | 17 | 104.5% | 7.8% | 6.2% | 14.7% | 7.8% | 6.2% | 20.9% |
| Antioch | $280,475 | $261,988 | 4 | 35 | 102.5% | 23.6% | 6.7% | -20.0% | 23.6% | 6.7% | -50.0% |
| Concord | $360,000 | $396,749 | 33 | 14 | 105.2% | 0.0% | 2.2% | 43.5% | 0.0% | 2.2% | 32.0% |
| Danville | $897,000 | $864,579 | 19 | 6 | 106.5% | -7.3% | -8.1% | 26.7% | -7.3% | -8.1% | 111.1% |
| Hercules | $454,500 | $478,278 | 9 | 18 | 105.0% | 1.0% | 5.3% | -35.7% | 1.0% | 5.3% | 28.6% |
| Martinez | $441,000 | $495,950 | 20 | 13 | 103.8% | -7.6% | 0.9% | 5.3% | -7.6% | 0.9% | 100.0% |
| Moraga | $737,500 | $717,750 | 4 | 14 | 103.6% | -2.3% | -3.7% | -33.3% | -2.3% | -3.7% | -20.0% |
| Pleasant Hill | $651,000 | $624,821 | 14 | 10 | 104.3% | 20.6% | 15.8% | 133.3% | 20.6% | 15.8% | 100.0% |
| Richmond | $525,000 | $526,577 | 23 | 16 | 102.9% | 6.1% | 7.1% | 53.3% | 6.1% | 7.1% | 155.6% |
| San Pablo | $557,500 | $557,500 | 2 | 6 | 106.8% | n/a | n/a | -66.7% | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| San Ramon | $760,000 | $811,803 | 33 | 13 | 108.7% | 25.1% | 21.0% | 3.1% | 25.1% | 21.0% | 22.2% |
| Walnut Creek | $520,000 | $566,510 | 86 | 22 | 102.6% | 3.2% | 0.6% | 21.1% | 3.2% | 0.6% | -8.5% |
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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