We’re going to be hearing for months about how sales are dwindling.
It’s mostly due to comparing 2022 stats to last year’s numbers, which were the most frenzied-up numbers ever. But it is also due to it being a market for the affluent now.
Look at the chart above. Even though sales are down 7% overall, the higher-end sales are booming:
San Diego County Detached-Home Sales, Jan 1 – May 31
| Year | ||
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| 2021 | ||
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As recently as 2019, the million-dollar sales were only 18% of the total sales count. This year, it’s 46%, and we still have a week more of sales plus late-reporters to record. It could hit 50%, just three year later!
Yet the total number of 2022 sales will only be 10% to 12% behind those in 2021, the craziest year ever.
Plus, if there were more quality homes for sale priced over $1,000,000, we’d have even more sales!
