Big Month for Palm Beach Gardens Home Sales

Palm Beach Gardens Single Family Home Sales Jump 31%

As I sit down to finish up my final articles about the metrics of the 2011 south Florida real estate market I am excited about what the new year will bring. There are many positive signs and I am looking forward to finishing up this review of December sales in the region so we can put together the recap of 2011 and our projections for 2012. But first things first let’s see how things panned out in the final month of 2011. During December our real estate sales power rankings ended up looking like this;

    #1 Tequesta
    #2 North Palm Beach
    #3 Palm Beach Gardens up 31%
    #4 Hobe Sound up 10%
    #5 Jupiter up 5%
    #6 Juno Beach down 66%

Last month we reported how sales were down throughout the north Palm Beach County area and it was great to see a robust rebound to end up the year. Five of the main market areas reported increases and some were rather dramatic with the only segment losing ground being the condominium market in Juno Beach.

This month’s 3rd place finisher in our sales power ranking are single family home sales in Palm Beach Gardens that had a big 31% increase over the November sales volume. We are pushing up into the highest levels of the year with these numbers and a good sign of things to come in 2012. In December we had 71 sales which was an increase of 17 from the 54 sales we had in November. We also jumped ahead of the 12 month average which stands at 68.5 but fell just below the 73 units that sold in December of last year.



While sales levels ticking up we also saw a good balance of homes selling in all price categories. Still the vast majority of sales equaling 62% of the overall market fell between $150,000 and $500,000 where we are seeing the most strength in all areas. Sales of luxury homes with prices above $500,000 were also strong controlling 25% of the market. The chart below shows the percentage of sales by price category for the month of December.



With the large majority of sales in the median price ranges and solid upper end sales we would expect to see the median sales price put in a solid performance as well. However with many of the sales closer to $300,000 than $500,000 we actually had a fairly average month when it came to the median sales price. In fact we actually saw a small increase in median price to $325,000 from the $305,000 median we experienced in November. Still are 7th best performance of the year and a positive sign moving forward. With this showing we still fell slightly below the 12 month average of $330,833. We also fell short of the median price sale of $349,000 we saw in December of last year. The chart below shows median prices on a monthly basis over the previous 12 month period.



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