Sunday, March 31, 2013

APRIL 2013 SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY REAL ESTATE

Sunset at Treasure Island/Montage
Taken by Amanda 3/28/13

 
O.C. HOME LISTINGS AND DISTRESS SALES NEAR 9-YEAR LOW...

The number of homes for sale in Orange County last week fell to their second-lowest level in numbers dating back nearly nine years. As of March 14th, 3,183 Orange County homes were listed for sale in the Realtor-run Multiple Listing Service, or MLS. The only time in the period that listings were lower was on Jan. 3, when there were 22 fewer homes for sale. A year earlier, Orange County had 7,000 homes for sale. The average in figures dating back to June 2004 is 10,000 listings.
 
Orange County had just 226 distressed property listings - foreclosures and homes selling "short" of the amount needed to pay off the mortgage. That's the lowest number in the past nine years, accounting for 7.1 percent of all listings. A year ago, the county had nearly 2,200 distressed listings, or 30.4 percent of the market. The market shed about a third of its distressed listings in the past month. The current market time needed to sell all the inventory at the current sales pace - also fell to a nine-year low: 1.11 months, or 33 days. The average is four months and 13 days.


*USNational Title 3/31/13
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MARCH STATISTICS FOR LAGUNA BEACH:
1809 active listings
67 in escrow
35 closed sales from 3/01/13 - 3/31/13

35 Sales for March 2013:
11 sales under $1 million
14 sales $1-2 million
4 sales $2-3 million
4 sales $3-4 million
1 sale $9,000,000
1 sale $11,000,000

*CRMLS 3/31/13
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COASTAL ZIP CODES BY MEDIAN SALES PRICE FOR FEBRUARY 2012 COMPARED TO FEBRUARY 2013:
Balboa Island - 92662 - 1 - $1,600,000 - minus 11.1%
Capo Beach - 92624 - 8 - $713,000 - 14.5%
Corona del Mar - 92625 - 9 - $1,663,000 - minus 16.9%
Costa Mesa - 92626 - 29- $570,000 - minus 16.9%
Costa Mesa - 92627 - 25 - $617,000 - 24.2%
Dana Point - 92629 - 19 - $829,000 - 41.3%
Laguna Beach - 92651 - 31 - $1,160,000 - 19%
Laguna Niguel - 92677 - 55 - $660,000 - 13.7%
Newport Beach - 92660 - 24 - $943,000 - minus 22.7%
Newport Beach - 92661 - 2 - $1,413,000 - minus 58.2%
Newport Beach - 92663- 11 - $1,385,000 - 2.6%
Newport Coast - 92657 - 13 - $1,850,000 - 19.2%
San Clemente - 92672 - 20 - $540,000 - 2.9%
San Clemente - 92673 - 24 - $717,000 - 7.8%

*DataQuickNews/LATimes 3/30/13