NSDCC May Sales & Pricing – Prelim.

by | May 31, 2016 | Jim's Take on the Market, North County Coastal, Sales and Price Check, Spring Kick | 0 comments

We’re wrapping up the month of May today, and the spring selling season.  Oh yes, there will still be plenty of blue sky ahead….until there isn’t.

The NSDCC closed sales this month are looking like they will exceed last year’s total for May – which was 287 sales.

There have been 280 closings so far this month, and we should get up to 300 over the next week or two.

Year
No. of Sales
Average Cost-per-SF
Median Sales Price
2013
362
$416/sf
$943,500
2014
269
$465/sf
$950,000
2015
287
$497/sf
$1,459,168
2016
280
$506/sf
$1,252,500

The median sales price is taking a hit this month, and it seems in part due to the lower-middle tier ($800,000-$1,400,000) being red hot lately.  It’s because the $800,000-$1,400,000 range is rapidly becoming the lowest tier!

This chart of pending listings by price range gives us a glimpse of what to expect for sales closing this summer:

San Diego Case-Shiller, March

by | May 31, 2016 | Jim's Take on the Market, Same-House Sales | 0 comments

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The March reading of the local Case-Shiller Index rose 1% month-over-month. As the index starts reflecting the ‘season’, it will probably show higher velocity over the next few months.

Even the high-tier was cooking – it also rose 1% month-over-month! But it has been fairly flat over the last year, so it was probably overdue.

(see graph at bottom)

Here are the recent San Diego NSA changes:

Month
CSI-SD
M-o-M chg
Y-o-Y chg
December
203.45
-0.3%
+5.0%
January ’15
204.67
+0.6%
+5.0%
February
205.94
+0.6%
+4.6%
March
208.52
+1.2%
+4.6%
April
209.78
+0.6%
+4.5%
May
211.57
+0.9%
+4.8%
June
212.09
+0.3%
+4.6%
July
214.53
+1.1%
+5.4%
August
215.22
+0.3%
+5.9%
September
216.45
+0.6%
+6.6%
October
215.64
-0.3%
+6.2%
November
216.47
+0.3%
+6.0%
December
217.86
+0.7%
+7.2%
January ’16
218.77
+0.4%
+6.9%
February
219.06
+0.1%
+6.4%
March
221.35
+1.0%
+6.2%

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Miami Condo Market

by | May 29, 2016 | Jim's Take on the Market, Market Conditions | 1 comment

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Here is a hyper-example of how a boom unravels – first there is an extended stagnation because sellers don’t believe it, and besides, they’re not going to give it away. But their unwillingness to sell for what the market will bear only emboldens the buyers to wait longer.

Thankfully, we only have 6,507 houses and condos for sale in a county of more than 3.2 million people!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-27/miami-s-condo-frenzy-ends-with-inventory-piling-up-in-new-towers

Miami’s crop of new condo towers, built with big deposits from Latin American buyers and lots of marketing glitz, are opening with many owners heading for the exits.

A third of the units in some newly built high-rises are back on the market, though most are listed for more than their owners paid in the pre-construction phase. At the current sales pace, it would take 29 months to sell the 3,397 condominiums available in the downtown area, according to South Florida development tracker CraneSpotters.com.

With the U.S. dollar strong, South American investors who piled into the downtown Miami market after the real estate crash are now trying to unload their recently built condos, adding inventory to an area where 8,000 units are under construction and nine towers were completed since the end of 2013. Some are offering homes at a loss as demand cools. Condo purchases from January through April slid 25 percent from a year earlier, while the average price fell 6 percent on a per-square-foot basis, CraneSpotters data show.

“The problem is that investors are no longer buying, and now they’re going to be looking to sell,” said Jack McCabe, a housing consultant based in Deerfield Beach, Florida. “And what buyers are going to replace those other than vulture buyers looking for deals?”

Retirees and Housing

by | May 27, 2016 | Boomer Liquidations, Boomers, Jim's Take on the Market | 3 comments

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From our friends at John Burns Real Estate Consulting:

http://realestateconsulting.com/the-retiree-surge-is-here/

Only 10 years ago, 2.2 million people were turning 65 each year. That number has surged to 3.5 million this year and will grow to 4.2 million in 2025!

Tomorrow’s retirees will completely transform the housing industry. We have done a tremendous amount of research on this group, all of whom were born in the 1950s. We call them the Innovators because they have created so many innovations throughout their lives. They are:

  • Tech savvy, which began with their space race fascination as kids
  • Family-oriented, with almost 50% reporting that they intend to live with their parent or adult child in the near future
  • More affluent than any prior generation of retirees, thanks to:
    • Careers that perfectly coincided with a strong economy
    • A workaholic attitude that led to more double-income households and delayed retirement
    • 80% homeownership, with the majority having no mortgage today
    • 30 years of falling interest rates boosting home values and retirement accounts

All of these factors above will play into the Innovators’ next housing move. They will:

  • Innovate retirement to be more about health, family, experiences, and continuing to work
  • Move several more times, including selling their home and moving into a rental in an urban area that is walkable to entertainment
  • Focus more on living near their kids, with huge rewards to the builders who sell multigenerational-living homes that satisfy Innovators’ needs
  • Continue migrating south, but not just to the traditional retirement areas, as they will want to be near their kids and a job

The chart above comes from our upcoming book The Big Shifts Ahead: Demographic Clarity for Businesses and shows how dramatic the retirement surge has been recently—and will be in the future.

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