Total Residential Active Listings – 5215 New Listings Taken During the Last 7 Days – 361 Accepted Offers (Pendings) During the Last 7 Days – 181 Closed Transactions During the Last 7 Days – 87 Average Sale Price of Solds – $135,056 Average Days On Market of Solds – 113 Les Sulgrove, Iowa Real Estate […]

Early Spring activity continues to increase and on March 13th, it will be time to turn our clocks ahead one hour!  That will mean more daylight later in the day and the start of evening showings. There were a total of 365 new listings taken this week!  That’s 100 more than last week!  If you […]

Warmer weather right at the end of the month prompted a few new sellers to list their home.  Ramping Up!  Pendings climb consistently through the month of February. Watch for this data to increase in March as February Pendings proceed to closing. It’s interesting to see Average Sale Price sliding downward.  Lower end buyers start […]

As the month of February ends, it is time to update the monthly real estate stats.  My method is to take a snapshot of the market conditions as of today (February 28th) and post them for everyone to use as they like. The above chart shows the real estate market broken down by price range. […]

Total Residential Active Listings – 5073 New Listings Taken During the Last 7 Days – 266 Accepted Offers (Pendings) During the Last 7 Days – 172 Closed Transactions During the Last 7 Days – 122 Average Sale Price of Solds – $132,570 Average Days On Market of Solds – 144 Les Sulgrove, Iowa Real Estate […]

I had recently updated the 10 year comparison of Sold transactions for January 2011 and noticed that this January was very similar to 2009. Then I read this Blog post by Calculated Risk Blog http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/02/case-shiller-national-home-prices-are.html My conclusion is that either Case-Shiller agrees with me or I agree with Case-Shiller! What do you think?  Are we […]

It was just a matter of time before we hit the 1,000 mark of total Pending transactions.  As you can see in the graphic below, the green represents 2011 Pending transactions.  The Blue line represents 2009 Pendings and the Red 2010 Pendings.  It is no surprise that we are behind last years Pendings, in fact, […]

Observations this week:  There was a nice increase in Pending Sales in the $300,000 to $400,000 price range.  I expect next weeks new listings to begin to increase as well with the warmer weather. Total Residential Active Listings – 5070 New Listings Taken During the Last 7 Days – 250 Accepted Offers (Pendings) During the […]