Hope for Homebuyers

Written by Jim the Realtor

August 30, 2010

Either sellers and agents are starting to pay attention, or the reach of bubbleinfo is improving, because list prices appear to be coming down nicely – hat tip to RE for sending these in:

OLD CARLSBAD

ENCINITAS

LA JOLLA

PACIFIC BEACH / MISSION BEACH

PT. LOMA

CORONADO

CARMEL VALLEY

20 Comments

  1. Erin

    Wow. I wasn’t expecting to actually see such a sudden dropoff in prices, but there it is!

  2. Jim the Realtor

    We’ll take a closer look, we think it is the median list price psf they are charting (in red).

    It could be impacted by fewer small homes listing?

  3. Wood

    Does Redfin have a problem…how could encinitas drop from $400/sqft to $250/sqft overnight? or are these just new listings?

  4. Travis

    Why is list price line trailing the sales prices line in time?

  5. LongTimeRenter8Years

    If this data is as good as it looks and can follow the trend for 2 months, I am buying.
    Its worth the wait.

  6. Matt

    Either way for the most part sellers are beginning to take note…you’re not going to get those pie in the sky prices anymore.

  7. Richard

    List price trailing sales price in some areas is location and quality. Buyers will pay for the premium location and quality, even if the cost of the home is higher than the list price.

  8. Joe

    Anyway we could see those for RSF and Del Mar?

  9. CA renter

    As much as I’d love for this to be true, I’m not seeing this pricing trend in real life. Is there something I’m missing? Maybe all the higher-end properties are being pulled off the market?

  10. Jim the Realtor

    Agreed, and it must be in part due to how goofy the median of anything is.

    What do you get when the ppsf is lower?

    Typically it’s the big warehouse-type homes, the 4,000sf for $950,000 = $237.50-per-sf types.

    These are all from redfin, I need to do my own checking. If it’s wrong, it’s Redfin’s fault 🙂

  11. Nameless

    I’m pretty sure it’s a Redfin glitch. If you search for active house listings in 92024 directly instead of trusting the chart, you see 269 listings with a median ppsf somewhere around $375. SDLookup reports the median ppsf of $371.

  12. Jim the Realtor

    I checked, and agree with nameless, there is little drop off lately in the median LP of any of the zip codes listed.

    All listings, and new-listings-only have very similar medians in all zips.

    Redfin, what say you?

  13. Jim the Realtor

    But then again, I’m trusting that SandicorMLS is accurate, which isn’t a given.

    Stick with the videos?

  14. Geotpf

    I believe there’s something wrong with the extremely recent data on Redfin’s charts. It also appears that the number of listings they are tracking drops to zero, screwing up the numbers.

  15. Sean

    Beware, RedFin was having data aggregation issues. Charts in my area were pulling data showing zero units for sale. Which is not the case. Don’t know if any similar issue on list prices is being corrected.

  16. Michelle Broderick

    Sorry for the confusion regarding the graphs. We are experiencing data issues on the Redfin.com site that should be resolved shortly.

    Until the issues are fixed we’ll be posting a notice to those pages alerting everyone to the issues.

    Again, apologies for the confusion, and thanks for the keen eye regarding the data.

    I’ll be sure to post another update once the data is fixed. For more information check out our forums:
    http://forums.redfin.com/t5/Website-Questions/Heads-Up-Charts-amp-Graphs-are-Busted/td-p/127067

    Michelle Broderick
    Redfin.com

  17. Travis

    Richard (#8) – I can understand that list price will be higher/lower than sales price. What I was trying to ask is why does sales price have data for August, but it looks like list price data ends in July? Thanks.

  18. Aztec

    Yow, now if those stats were right, half the readers of this blog would pass out with joy. I would be personally worried about Shadash!

    But there’s no way those numbers are even remotely close. I’ll be curious to see the revisions.

  19. Michelle Broderick

    Just a note to let everyone know that the graphs are back to normal.

    Thanks for your patience and understanding!

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