For Week Ending August 27, 2016
If residential real estate were a wager to close out the summer golf season, prospective buyers would still be waiting impatiently for prospective sellers to take the putt on the final hole. Yet inventory continues to shrink, as summer vacations end and kids return to school. If the taken putt were to somehow land in the cup and increase inventory, a legendary celebration would occur that might even make a golf course gopher dance.
In the Twin Cities region, for the week ending August 27:
- New Listings decreased 8.0% to 1,411
- Pending Sales increased 0.3% to 1,174
- Inventory decreased 17.0% to 14,454
For the month of July:
- Median Sales Price increased 6.6% to $239,900
- Days on Market decreased 14.3% to 54
- Percent of Original List Price Received increased 0.8% to 98.4%
- Months Supply of Inventory decreased 21.1% to 3.0
All comparisons are to 2015
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