Wednesday, December 31, 2014

RealtyTrac Reports Annual Home Price Appreciation Slows to Single Digits in Most Metros; Short Sales Fall to Pre-Recession Levels; REOs Decrease while Foreclosure Auction Sales Post Slight Increase


Michael Mahon
IRVINE, CA, Dec. 31, 2014 — RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the nation’s leading source for comprehensive housing data, today released its November 2014 Residential & Foreclosure Sales Report, which shows that the median sales price of U.S. single family homes and condos in November was $190,000, flat with the previous month but up 15 percent from a year.

The median sales price of distressed homes — those in the foreclosure process or bank-owned — reached a high of $128,625, the highest since December 2009, 35 percent below the median sales price of non-distressed properties, $199,000.

Distressed home prices increased at a faster pace, up 18 percent from a year ago while non-distressed home prices were up 14 percent during the same time period.

“As the price of distressed properties reaches a new high the pool of investor activity that has been fueling the housing recovery may dry up,” said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.

OB Jacobi
“However, 20 states still saw annual decreases in distressed property prices so we will continue to see a fragmented recovery as investors move from once hot markets such as Phoenix, Atlanta and many California markets and into markets such as Charlotte, Columbus, Ohio, Dallas and Oklahoma City.”

“We are finding many home buyers frustrated as we enter the Holiday Season in Ohio,” said Michael Mahon, executive vice president at HER Realtors, covering the Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton markets.  “With a less than seasonally normal available homes inventory to choose from, coupled with a reduction in available foreclosure inventory, many home buyers are finding themselves in multiple offer situations or unable to find their dream home for the Holidays.”

“Seattle home prices started the year at an appreciation rate of about 15 percent, but the pace gradually slowed and we expect prices in 2015 to hover between 4-6 percent. 

Daren Blomquist
"We see that as a good thing because if home prices keep appreciating in the double digits for too long, we could run into the same boom/bust market of years past,” said OB Jacobi, president of Windermere Real Estate, covering the Seattle market.

“Buyer demand in Seattle has been incredibly strong this year and we believe this will continue into 2015, but inventory levels, which are at an all-time low right now, should begin to inch up, providing more buyers with a greater selection of homes to choose from.”


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Jennifer von Pohlmann
PR Manager
Office: 949.502.8300 ext 139

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