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Orlando Florida real estate market statistics for April 2010

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Real Estate Agent with Sand Dollar Realty Group, Inc. BK627826

The Central Florida real estate market statistics for April 2010 have been released by the Orlando Regional Realtor Association.  Here is a link to the detailed report . Below is a short breakdown of these numbers. The numbers are for Orange County & Seminole County, including the cities of Apopka, Ocoee, Orlando, Winter Park, Maitland, Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Lake Mary, Sanford, Casselberry, and Oviedo.

                 Inventory    New Listings    New Pendings   Under Contract     Closed    Days on Market

Apr 2009       20,194        3715                 3412                 5818                 1854          102

Feb 2010      16,051         4586                 4043                9462                 1973           91

Mar 2010      16,223         5282                 4662               10,179                2610           91

Apr 2010       15,766        5116                 5221                10,832               2461           81

As expected in April, there was a big rush to get properties under contract before the $8000 tax credit deadline expired on April 30.  We saw a lot of bidding wars in April as a result.  The last week or so of April was actually a little bit slower though apparently because everybody did much of their scrambling to get in offers during March and the earlier part of April.  We did have a few agents still trying to get contracts signed late into the evening on April 30. 

Because of this rush, inventory levels dropped down again and the number of new pendings and under contracts skyrocketed.  This also appears to have caused the days on market to drop significantly too. 

Prices for the mostpart remained relatively stable during April. The median price went up slightly from $110,000 in March to $115,000 in April. The average price went down slightly from $145,300 in March to $142,000 in April. 

Here is some additional analysis and commentary from the Orlando Realtors.

Sandy Shores FL Realtor®, Melbourne Real Estate
M & M Realty of Brevard Inc. - Melbourne, FL
Brevard County Real Estate, Florida's Space Coast

Rob, It's good to see the pendings and under contracts going up. Interesting that the closed transactions were heading up and peaked in March 2010, and then slightly slipped back down just a bit.

May 20, 2010 04:29 AM