Jupiter Home Sales Down 12% in October
Still trying to catch up after a well deserved vacation and a return to a south Florida real estate market that is hot, hot, hot. While I quit reading the newspaper and listening to news on the TV I get more than enough from the internet and know how the talking heads report how bad everything is with the economy. Somebody forgot to tell home buyers how bad it is because they continue to spark the amazing rebound we have seen this year. Particularly strong is the single family home market and well priced waterfront properties but we are seeing strength everywhere. Watch for a big sale coming out of Martin County soon. During October our real estate sales power rankings ended up like this;
#1 Hobe Sound
#2 Tequesta
#3 North Palm Beach
#4 Palm Beach Gardens
#5 Jupiter down 12%
#6 Juno Beach down 33%
Three of the markets we cover in this report were down in October but three were up and those that were up showed very good gains. Sales remain strong and there are many, many buyers lined up waiting for properties that match there needs. We were spoiled by great inventory levels for many years and those days are over. Many still worry about the “shadow inventory” of foreclosures and time will tell if those fears are founded but these days I am finding much better value in traditional sales and we seem well positioned to start seeing rising prices once again in south Florida. We deserve it after the past 6 years.
This month’s 5th place finisher in our sales power ranking are single family home sales in Jupiter that were down 12% from the previous month. For the past 6 months we have been selling in a fairly tight and solid range of between 70 and 86 homes. Still we went a bit lower in October with 70 sales compared to 80 in September. We did stay below the 12 month average which stands at 75.16 but were way ahead of the 44 homes that sold in October of last year.
While sales levels went lower they also were heavily weighted in the lower price categories. In fact 64% of all sales last month were below $300,000. Only 13% of all sales were of homes valued above $500,000 which was one of the weaker showings of the luxury market in recent months. The chart below shows the percentage of sales by price category for the month of October.
With the majority of sales in the lower end of the price ranges range we would expect to see the median sales price drop and that is what it did. We actually saw a big decrease in median price to $220,000 from the $300,750 we saw the previous month. We were also well behind the $277,526 median price we experienced in October of last year and this is the lowest monthly we have seen for a very long time. This showing kept us far below the 12 month average of $303,529 Foreclosures continue to put pressure on pricing but it sure feels like the supply forces will be pushing for increased prices ahead. After this showing in Jupiter we need it. The chart below shows median prices on a monthly basis over the previous 12 month period.
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Tom Priester e-PRO
"Results Driven Real Estate"
Keller Williams Realty
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