How’s the Market? Here is the September 2017 West Valley Market Report. Inventory levels once again held steady in most west valley cities. A few dropped a couple of percentages while a few went up a tick. Only Surprise and Peoria saw increase values in the Median sales price, all other cities reported a decrease in median home prices. As you can see from August Market report, they were not significant price decreases, but with low inventory supply, we expect to see prices trending up. In case you missed, be sure to check out last weeks blog “Whats Up with this Market” where I shared what our team, and other agents are experiencing in this market.
Now to give an accurate picture when looking at these numbers, you need to keep in mind 30-45 day average closing time for real estate transactions, this means most of the homes that closed in September, actually sold in August. So with that said, another number I pay close attention to is the Pending Sales. Not sure if its a “sign of a shift” or higher than normal temperatures, but the winter visitors and influx of home buyers that usually see in September just weren’t there. Pending Sales in September in just about all west valley cities showed double digits decreases over the same month last year. Avondale -27.6%, Glendale -33.4%, Goodyear -32.5%, Litchfield Park -31.2% Peoria -17.8%, Phoenix -25%, Surprise -30.3%, Maricopa County -28%, the only city to increase sales over last year was Buckeye with 7.5% increase over last year.
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