March 25, 2009

Goleta South from 1/1/09 to 3/14/09 compared to ’08 for the same period for Santa Barbara Real Estate area

The Condo market for the Goleta Real Estate South area of Santa Barbara the numbers of properties available is down by 43% for ’09 with the numbers of new listings down by 40%. The numbers of properties entering escrow has fallen even further and is down by 52% with the sales falling by 66%. But the average sales price has fallen only 10% for the year.

For Home Estates in the Santa Barbara Real Estate area of Goleta Real Estate South the inventory is down by 16% with the numbers of new listings falling by 20%. But escrows have only fallen by 2 with sales at exactly the same place they were last year. Even so the average sales price is down by 28% to $828,000.

The PUD market for the Santa Barbara Real Estate area of Goleta Real Estate South has the inventory doubled to 6 properties with the numbers of new PUDs up by 4 from 0 last year. With that entire added inventory the numbers of escrows is up by only 1 with the numbers of sales standing at 1 for each year. And amazingly the average sales price went from $615,000 last year to $1,000,000.

Posted by gandlwoods at March 25, 2009 08:38 AM