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Wellington FL: Was Cash King in 2010?

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Real Estate Agent with Hansen Real Estate Group Inc.
Wellington FL:  Was Cash King in 2010?

Cash did remain King last year in Wellington Florida.  Over 44% of home buyers paid cash for their Wellington Florida home, but don't think these buyers paid 30%, 20% or even 10% less than the asking price.  In fact the median List to Sales Price Ratio for a Wellington Florida Cash Buyer was 94%.  That means a home listed for $300,000 sold for $282,000, NOT $210,000, $240,000 or even $270,000.

Wellington Florida Cash Buyers 2010 

Buyers who chose to finance their Wellington home had a slightly higher List to Sales Price Ratio, which was around 95%.  However this number could easily be different if those buyers who had seller concessions chose a reduced purchase price instead.  Seller
concessions is when a seller contributes a certain amount of money towards a buyers closing costs, escrows and/or pre-paids. 

For example a buyer may purchase a home for $300,000 and ask the seller to contribute $10K towards their closing cost netting the seller $290,000, but if these financed buyers chose to remove the concessions and pay the $290,000 instead of $300,000 the List to Sales Price Ratio for financed buyers could be well under 95%.

Unfortunately there is no way to find out how many of these financed buyers actually had seller concessions other than contacting each listing agent for the 535 financed homes that sold in Wellington Florida and asking them.

Are you a Buyer looking to purchase a Wellington Home?  Start you home search here:  Wellington Florida Home Search
 where you can search for a Wellington property by type or price.

 

Wellington FL:  Was Cash King in 2010?

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About the Author:
Michelle Gibson is a full-time Realtor with the Hansen Real Estate Group Inc. She has been specializing in residential real estate throughout Palm Beach County Florida since 2001. Specific areas of expertise include; Wellington, Lake Worth, Royal Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Boynton Beach, Loxahatchee, Greenacres, Lake Clarke Shores, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, Delray Beach, and Jupiter.
 
Whether you're looking to buy, sell or rent Michelle will be able to walk you through your entire real estate transaction from start to finish.
 
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Terrie Leighton
Ferrari-Lund Real Estate - Reno, NV
Reno Real Estate Agent ~ Selling Homes in Reno

It truly is amazing Michelle that in these tough economic times, cash buyers are still out there purchasing homes!! It just shows us that real estate is still a great way to invest your money!

I always appreciate the professional graphs you include in your blogs. One of my goals for the year is to learn how to make and incorporate them into my blog as well!!

Feb 01, 2011 06:08 AM