The media has reported that the real estate market has slowed. What does that mean? The “days on market” has increased to 35 days nationally and 26 days in Orange County. This is still an extreme seller’s market. A balanced market would be close to 80 days on the market. The fall season historically has a reduction in inventory but we are not seeing the historic decrease in demand.
The demand for homes is still very high which is causing the home prices to stay strong. Most likely homes in Orange County will still be in a bidding war situation but homes priced over $1,000,000 are likely to receive fewer offers than just a couple of months prior. While homes priced under $700,000 will likely receive a ton of attention and a ton of offers.
Home values are 11% higher than last year.
The forbearance process is coming to an end. Some of the homes in the forbearance programs will come on the market but we believe that very few will come for sale. We will continue to look for trends with inventory that may prove us wrong.
In the past seven days Orange County has had 613 new listings. 735 closed transactions. 941 homes have been switched to pending or active under contract.
