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Naperville's Luxury and Custom Home Market

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX of Naperville

I mentioned in a previous post that Naperville's Luxury Home Market has actually increased in volume over the last year... bucking all current trends. With sales up over 28% for the year, there are still a lot of fantastic homes to be had at advantageous terms. Great opportunities are there for buyers... but the stats say the the Sellers with the properly staged and marketed homes are going to get them sold.

I am attaching a couple of graphs to illustrate these points. It is important to note that many of the "Active Listings"  are not yet built, but are being marketed on the "wish and a dream" plan (The builders wish you had a dream for that lot) this skews the statistics to a large degree... so the MSI (Months Supply of Inventory) looks abysmal, but is, in fact part of a thriving and exciting market. Also keep in mind that this maps out MSI over a two year period, sales in Naperville for luxury homes have been on the upswing, so MSI based on today's 12 month market numbers would put the Months Supply of Inventory at 28.5 months

 

 

 

 

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Sharon Simms
Coastal Properties Group International - Christie's International - Saint Petersburg, FL
St. Petersburg FL - CRS CIPS CLHMS RSPS
Maybe you could do a pullout chart, with a big red arrow, illustrating the difference in the luxury market from the general market.
Dec 02, 2006 09:39 PM
Maureen McCabe
HER Realtors - Columbus, OH
Columbus Ohio Real Estate
cash cowGood info for the Naperville market.   I love your cash cow Angus!!!
Dec 03, 2006 12:27 AM
Leigh Brown
Leigh Brown & Associates, RE/MAX Executive - Charlotte, NC
CEO, Dream Maker - Charlotte, NC
curious-do you build these yourself or have someone else (like an assistant) do it?  have you taken the CLHMS class?  Laurie Moore Moore has some great info about price bands that would fit nicely with your inventory charts.
Dec 03, 2006 05:08 AM
John Hruska
Homes Charlotte, LLC - Charlotte, NC

Angus,

Thanks for taking the time to creat the graphs and share with everyone.

Dec 03, 2006 06:35 AM
Linda Davis
RE/MAX Home Team - Gales Ferry, CT
Nice work.  Plus I also like the expression "wish and a dream" plan.  Sounds much better than our "to be built".
Dec 03, 2006 09:35 AM
Angus in Naperville IL
RE/MAX of Naperville - Naperville, IL

Sharon - You're right, I'll have to work on that!

Maureen - Seeing as I had some residual "cash cow" envy (of yours... ) I've been forced to try to compensate....

Leigh - Thanks for the info - I actually use a program from Terradatum to do the stats & charts

John - Appreciate the feedback!

Linda - "To Be Built" is, like... soooooo last tuesday.

Dec 03, 2006 02:26 PM
Suzanne Marriott
Keller Williams Arizona Realty - Anthem, AZ
Associate Broker, CLHMS, e-PRO
Angus - Hear in the Phoenix Metro Area we have had two $850-900K listings in the last 4 months that sold within 10-20 days.  Seems like the higher tiers are not affected as much?!
Dec 04, 2006 06:10 AM
Angus in Naperville IL
RE/MAX of Naperville - Naperville, IL

Suzanne - That's interesting. I'm thinking that if you have the money, you are not so motivated/un-motivated by fear. Thanks for sharing!

 

Dec 04, 2006 06:14 AM