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December Real Estate Market Update

Listing Spark

Across the major markets in Texas, our December real estate market update shows clear data points that we are ending the year in one of the strongest seller’s markets we have seen in modern history. . Median Sales Price: $270,000 (up 12%) Closed Sales: 9,660 (up 28.1%) Active Listings: 29,948 (down 27% from this time last year) 2.2

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HINTS OF SHARP INCREASE IN NEW CONSTRUCTION

Will Springer Realtor

Others – Meritage Homes (+20% YoY in 2021) and Tri Point Homes (+15-30% YoY in 2022) – expect tremendous growth of new communities. And many of the new projects are larger than in years past. Builders began construction on just under a million single-family homes in 2020. in existing-home sales April 2020-March 2021.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

Builders are trying to catch up and, according to federal officials , there are more housing units under construction today than at any time in the last 50 years. An annual survey released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said renters put the probability of ever owning a home at 40%, down from 44% last year.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

They have also been spending oodles of money to shape their residences to meet new living needs – modern and spacious, when possible – as households live in their homes for longer. The figure was 37% lower than a year ago and, for context, the five-year average of new listings for the month just before the pandemic began was 4021.

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CITIES FACE DAUNTING OFFICE-VACANCY CHALLENGE

Will Springer Realtor

You are not going to get people to come back into the office to the same degree as they did before 2020. Our urban area accounts for about half of the city’s economic activity, and the Seattle Chamber noted that rising office vacancies coupled with less construction could lead to $2B in decreased revenue. The city was No.

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Will Springer Realtor - Untitled Article

Will Springer Realtor

This year’s “cold down” is stark, with 36% fewer new listings and about 26% fewer homes under contract (Pendings) for all King County home types combined as well as single-family structures alone – and that’s simply from October to November. List price: $43M ($5548/sq. Prices declined 5.4% in King ($468K), 6.3% baths , 3700 sq.

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ROOTING HARD FOR LOWER MORTGAGE RATES

Will Springer Realtor

The downtown area has been through a rough spell since doors to offices, schools and shops closed in March 2020 and slowly returned to a form of normalcy over the past two years. BY THE NUMBERS >> Seattle metro leads the nation with construction cranes – 45 – according to a Q3 summary from the RLB Crane Index.