Thursday, July 25, 2013

RealtyTrac® Reports U.S. Residential Sales Up 8 Percent From Year Ago; Median Prices Up 5 Percent; Bank-Owned Sales and Short Sales Account for 23 Percent of All Residential Sales



 
IRVINE, CA, July 25, 2013 — RealtyTrac® (www.realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for real estate data, today released its first-ever U.S. Residential Sales Report, which shows that U.S. residential property sales reached an estimated annualized pace of 5.3 million in June 2013, up 2 percent from the previous month and up 8 percent from a year ago.

Daren Blomquist
The report also shows a national median sales price of $168,000 for the month, up 3 percent from the previous month and up 5 percent from a year ago. The median price of a distressed sale — in foreclosure or bank owned — was $120,000, 34 percent below the median price of a non-distressed sale ($181,500).

“The U.S. housing market is slowly but surely moving toward a more normalized and sustainable pattern after a flurry of institutional and cash buyers flocked to residential real estate last year, pushing up prices and picking clean the best inventory available in many areas,” said Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac.

“Rising home values should continue to unlock more non-distressed inventory while also pricing institutional investors out of more markets, which, combined with rising interest rates, will cool off the pace of price appreciation.

“Still, lingering distressed inventory in many markets will continue to provide fodder for institutional investors and cash buyers in those markets,” Blomquist continued.

“Markets where sales increased in June tend to be in states with that lingering distressed inventory, whereas markets where sales decreased tend to be in states that more quickly absorbed distressed inventory thanks to a relatively fast foreclosure process and strong demand.”

For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Jennifer von Pohlmann
949.502.8300, ext. 139

Ginny Walker
949.502.8300, ext. 268

Data and Report Licensing:
800.462.5193

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