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Albemarle County Real Estate Update – The first Ten Months of 2011

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One big notation: I’m no longer comparing today’s real estate market; what happened in 2005 – 2007 and before is interesting, curious, anomalous and ultimately irrelevant to today’s real estate market. EVERYTHING is different now – interest rates, economic outlook, international economic events, gas prices, employment trends – making comparisons between this market and that market is a distraction.

First, the bullet points:

– New Listings – Fewer than the past two years and trending down; this is a very good thing. As fewer houses come on the market, more houses will sell and we’l be able to find our way through the current spate of houses on the market. *

– New Pendings (Better reflecting current market activity) –

– Median Sales Price (for all properties) – Lower than last year, trending up.

* I’m not totally convinced that the houses that are coming on the market in the Charlottesville and Albemarle real estate market are the ones that buyers want to buy – whether size or energy efficiencies, I think that the inventory we’ve seen over the past 18 months has not quite matched to what buyers want, and this is a reason that we’ve seen the new construction market in the Charlottesville area do so well.

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Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors’ 3rd Quarter Market Report (2011)

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More to come. In the meantime, have a look at the market report.

CAAR 3rd Quarter Real Estate Market Report – 2011

This post will be updated throughout the day as I get opportunities to look at the data. …

Notes:

– The above report is for the entire Charlottesville MLS area, not Charlottesvill and Albemarle or even the Charlottesville MSA (Charlottesville, Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Nelson) or even the Charlottesville MSA + Louisa. So take it for what it’s worth – a very broad overview of the entire Central Virginia region. Example: in Amherst, Augusta, Buckingham, Goochland, Rockbridge and Lexington, there are 156 closed transactions in our MLS … which isn’t particularly relevant to real estate consumers in the Charlottesville area.

– Days on Market is not statistically accurate, as it does not reflect relistings of properties.

– The Charlottesville market is still declining.

– Detailed market report from Nest coming soon, as is county by county break down.

– Townhouse/Attached median sold price is down in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area, in no small part due to Ryan Homes’ driving prices through the floor market-wide.

– Median sales prices are down, but inventory is down as well; the latter qualifying as a good data point.

– What questions do you have about the market data?

Interactive Charts are after the jump; I choose to use the static charts rather than the interactive reports as I don’t like to be locked into a service; I pay $30 a month for access to the deeper data and if I choose to not pay for the service, the interactive charts go away … not a good option.

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Albemarle County Real Estate Market Update – August 2011

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What’s happening the Albemarle County real estate market? Lots of stuff. Perhaps the two most relevant posts I’ve written in the past few weeks are these:

– Goodbye, 0-5 Buyer -OR- Finance a House or an Education? in which I discuss the elimination of the short-term homeowner and this effect on the Charlottesville area real estate market

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– Categorizing the Charlottesville Real Estate Market – in which I break the market down into four segments – from distressed to price aggressively.

This is just a reasonably high-level overview of the Albemarle real estate market. But … this matters little to you if you’re looking for a home in Albemarle, start your home search here. If you’re curious about what’s happening in your location in Albemarle, or are currently searching for homes for sale in Albemarle, please feel free to contact me anytime with questions.

Sold listings are down in Albemarle County year over year:

See also:

Charlottesville MSA Real Estate Market Update – 30 August 2011 – How this matters to You

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City of Charlottesville Real Estate Market Update – August 2011

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The City of Charlottesville Real Estate market continues to be slow. Download the City of Charlottesville Detailed Real Estate Market Report A balanced market is still a ways off.

As I noted in 2006 (Good Lord, it’s been that long that we’ve been searching for a bottom?!)

How do we know that the housing “bust/correction/adjustment” (how about “change”) is over? My answer – when we are able to look back from a perspective of nine to eighteen months and say, “see, here are the data, this is the trend of where we were, and here is where we are.” Until then, speculation about every move – a move of any kind -  of the market is just that – speculation, even if it’s educated speculation.

This is just a reasonably high-level overview of the City of Charlottesville’s real estate market. If you’re curious about what’s happening in your location in Charlottesville, or are currently searching for homes for sale in Greene, please feel free to contact me anytime with questions.

Sold listings are up ever so slightly in the City of Charlottesville year over year:

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