DAY 192 for 2023
Welcome back to another edition of TUESDAY Condo Market Pulse.
We hope you had a fantastic Independence Day celebration! Because of July 4th… this blog was not created last week… so week to week comparisons are missing in this post… but… June 2023 summary data is included with some other interesting factoids.
As always…We’re keeping our fingers on the pulse of the Downtown Seattle condominium market for you so you don’t have to.
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Let’s check out the market’s vitals for this week…
This past week…
I had the opportunity to visit Jim and Monte Homes on their latest construction project. I was surprised by how much they have accomplished in such a short amount of time. The craftsmanship is top-notch, with each detail carefully thought out and executed with precision. The house will be ready for occupancy in a few months, and it will definitely be one of the
For the past 7 days… we had 178 Active listings on the market with an average of 105 cumulative days on the market (CDOM).
For JUNE, we had an average of 187 Active Listings available with an average CDOM of 59 days.
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For the past 7 days, we had 11 new listings come onto the market, two of which were re-listed.
– Re-listed listings are typically from expired listings (did not sell in their contract period) or cancelled listings (removed from market before they expired). There can be a strategic advantage to re-listing a condo/home to gain a fresh start, or re-start the day count… both of which can recapture new attention of buyers.
How healthy is the Downtown Seattle Condo Market? Let’s look at its pulse…
Let’s look at Pending listings. Both “Pendings” was well as “Pending Inspections” statuses give us the most real-time pace of the market.
We have 46 Pending listings (par with last week) (new purchase contracts between buyer and seller which have not yet closed, free from Inspection contingency) with an average of 54 Cumulative Days (same as last week) on Market.
– Longer market times (CDOM) of Pending Sales suggests that there is increasing buyer appetite to snap up some of the older listings… some at reduced prices. This repeats the trend which we saw last week as well.
Pending Inspections (PI): 4 PI listings (up 1) with an average of 34 CDOM.
– This week we saw a group of older (CDOM) listings go into Pending Inspection status.
SOLD (closed listings), remember, tell us what sold in the past. These listings went into contract an average of about 30 days ago. Once a sale closes, it’s discharged.
Discharged…
For the past 7 days, 9 SOLD listings (par with previous week) crossed the finish line with an average of 57 CDOM.
Showing us the historical heat of the market… that being how competitive the market is… we look at Sale Price to Listing Price ratio. For these recent sales… we see 97.53% SP%OLP.
How is our Supply of condominiums for sale, fairing?
For JUNE 2023… we had a 3.5 month supply, which is considered a *balanced/neutral market (3-6 month supply). Over the past 5 months, we have been averaging a 3.8 month supply of Downtown Seattle Condominiums, for sale.
June of 2022, there was a 5.6 month supply of condominiums for sale in Downtown Seattle, which was 38% more than this year.
*Buyer’s market: more than 6 months of inventory based on pended sales.
*Seller’s market: less than 3 months of inventory based on pended sales.
*Neutral market: 3 – 6 months of inventory based on pended sales.
This chart above, shows 15 months of history for supply of condominiums for sale in Downtown Seattle. New data for Trendgraphix is reported on or around the 7th of the following month.
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