August 11, 2009

Montecito from Jan. 1 through Aug. 5 comparing ’08 to ’09 for the Santa Barbara Real Estate area

In the Montecito Real Estate area of Santa Barbara Real Estate for the Condo Market the total numbers of properties available through August 5 is exactly where it was last year at this time with 47. The new listings are up 10% to 32. But there have been only 3 escrows opened this year compared to 11 last year with just 2 sales compared to 11 last year. To add insult to injury average sales price has fallen 39% to $1,064,500.

In the Single Family Home market for the Santa Barbara Real Estate area of Montecito Real Estate the total number of listings is up by 20% to 462 with the numbers of new listings up by 11% to 103. Unfortunately even though the inventory is up the escrows have fallen by 15% to 87 and the sales are down 30% to the current level of72. The average sales price is also down by 37% to just below $3 million.

For the PUD market in Montecito there have been just 4 listings this year which is 1 more than we had last year. There have been just 3 new listings for both years and only 1 escrow opened in both years with 1 sale rung up last year for about $2.5 million and 0 so far this year.

Posted by gandlwoods at August 11, 2009 07:55 AM