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Hi everybody, this is Lance Mohr and I’m going to go over the Tampa real estate news and talk about the August real estate statistics. If you’re a buyer or seller and you’re needing help, if you have any questions whatsoever, don’t hesitate to give me a call, I’ve been in business since 1997 and have tons of experience. I’ve worked with thousands of home buyers and home sellers and I’ve seen about everything there is to see in real estate ten times over – so don’t hesitate to give me a call if you’re looking for someone to represent you as a buyer’s agent or seller.
So let’s get into the August statistics. I’ll start off as I always do and talk about the active listings first. As you can see, there’s really not much of a change. It did go up a little bit as there are a few more active listings. We went from 5,225 to 5,288 – not a really big increase. But the surprise is pendings, the pending sales went from 3,304 to 2,835. That’s almost 15% drop in one month. That’s a really big drop. So let’s go back to over to solds. Again, not a whole bunch has changed, we’ve gone from the July statistics of 1,390 homes that sold, compared to 1,414 in August. But what you’re seeing here, if you look at these statistics closely, is the pending and that’s a big drop. Generally speaking, June will be a little slow only because schools are getting out and August generally will be a little slower just because school is getting back in but May, June, July, August – those are generally very strong months in real estate and to drop almost 15% in one month is a lot. In the next month or two the solds are going to start dipping and they’re going to go from the 1,400’s into the 1,300’s and possibly into the 1,200’s. That’s because of how slow things are now. So what this is telling you is that the buyers are pulling back the a little bit and not really looking as much as they were.
If we go down to the bank owned and solds, you can see that 21% of all homes that sold were bank owned. That tells you sellers that buyers want a good deal. Now I’m not saying bank owned properties are a good deal or a great deal, I still think about 50% – 60% of all the banks have their homes overpriced. But it’s a perception of a deal. If we go over the statistics for August in the price range, you can see we’re still in the seller’s market across the board. If the seller puts their home for sale and they price it competitively, condition it so that it really looks good and market it so that it’s out there, it’s going to sell. It’s going to sell, whether it’s under $100,000, whether it’s under $250,000 or $300,000 – it’s going to sell. But once you start going over $300,000 (maybe even $250,000) it’s going to start getting a little harder to sell because there’s not as many buyers out there – not as many fish in the sea. But as you can see from these statistics, the Tampa real estate market is still strong. We’re still in a very good market and we’re still in the seller’s market; but we’ll what happens. I’m very curious to see what happens in September. Are the pending sales going to trend down and at what rate? As you can see the active homes are continually creeping up.
I hope this helps. Visit our real estate blog at www.tampa2enjoy.com/blog and you can see the Tampa real estate news, monthly statistics and a bunch of other terrific information. Have a great day and don’t hesitate to give me a call or send me an email if you have any questions.
