Frank asked about the breakdown of REO/SS/regular-sellers:

SD County, August 2010, all property types

Seller # of sales Avg. Sales Price $-per-sf DOM
Short-Sales
543 (20%)
$313,054
$197/sf
132
REO
605 (21%)
$281,311
$185/sf
46
Regular
1,675 (59%)
$483,559
$266/sf
70

North SD County Coastal (La Jolla to Carlsbad)

Seller # of sales Avg. Sales Price $-per-sf DOM
Short-Sales
39 (12%)
$540,000
$277/sf
94
REO
35 (10%)
$581,682
$307/sf
54
Regular
262 (78%)
$847,377
$362/sf
59

Note that when a listing is marked contingent, the ‘days on market’ clock keeps ticking. It is only once it is marked pending that it stops – which enables the fraudulent sales to misrepresent the actual time on market. In other words, a listing agent can input a listing and immediately mark it contingent, then change it to pending 3 months later – and the DOM will show 90. Yet above the short-sale average DOM above is much longer than the others – it’s because some agents incorrectly mark their short-sales pending, instead of contingent, which runs up the DOM.

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