August 12, 2009

East of State St from 1/1/09 to 8/3/09 compared to ’08 for the Santa Barbara Real Estate area

For Condos in the Santa Barbara Real Estate area of East of State the total numbers of properties for sale this year is up by 3% to 136 with the new listings up 4% to 97. But outpacing those numbers are the escrows which are up 29% to 44 with the sales only up 3% to 34. With everything else up the average sales price has fallen 18% to $636,732.

The Home Estate market for the East of State St area of Santa Barbara Real Estate the total numbers of listings are up by 5% to 444 with the new listings up even farther by 13% to 327. Up even farther are the numbers of escrows have risen by 18% to 156 but the numbers of sales is up just 3% to 119. With all the rises the falling has to be close behind and the average sales price is down by 16% to about $1.1 million.

For the PUD market on the East Side of Santa Barbara there were only 11 active listings last year and this year has given us only 6. There have been 5 new listings but last year there were 6. The has been only 1 escrow opened this year compared to 3 last year and 2 sales last year compared to 0 this year. That 1 sale was for $967,500.

Posted by gandlwoods at August 12, 2009 09:02 AM