March 13, 2008

Carpinteria/Summerland area of Santa Barbara Real Estate from 1/1/08 to 3/8/08 compared to ’07 for the same period

For the Santa Barbara area of Carpinteria Real Estate/Summerland Real Estate for the condo market ’08 has some changes and some similarities with ’07. The overall total active listings are down by 32% with 77 in ’07 and 52 for ’08, and the new listings are down even further with 37 in ’07 and 14 in ’08 for 62% decline. Condos that entered escrow are also down markedly from 14 in ’07 to 6 in ’08. But remarkably the numbers of sales is down by only 1 from 5 last year to 4 this year. And even more remarkably the average sales price I basically the same with $511,000 last year vs. $513,000 this year.

For Home Estates in Carpinteria Real Estate/Summerland Real Estate the total numbers of listings available for sale is up about 17% but the number of new listings is down by 18%. The number of homes entering escrow is slightly behind where it was last year when we had 17 and currently we’re at 14. The Average Sales Price is way down from $6,558,192 last year to $2,107,628 this year which is a 67% decline.

In the Santa Barbara area of Carpinteria Real Estate/Summerland Real Estate for the PUD market the inventory is exactly where it was last year with 2 and the new PUDs are also where there were with 1.
The Escrows are also the same at 0 and the sales likewise at 0 for both years.

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Posted by gandlwoods at March 13, 2008 06:37 AM