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Napa Valley and California year over year show improvement for homes sale, days on market, months of inventory available for March 2012

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Real Estate Agent with Better Homes & Gardens Wine Country Group DRE # 00770113

Napa Valley March 2012 information on number of homes sold, in escrow and current available for sale

  • For Napa County there is currently only 3.4 months supply of inventory available for sale. The City Napa fares worse at only 3.1 months supply.
  • The average days on market, the number of days it takes to sale a home, for Napa County shrunk a little 125 to 115 days for March year over year.
  • Currently there are 465 residential properties for sale in Napa County and 459 in escrow. These numbers for the City of Napa are 281 and 302.
  • Below are the stats for Napa County, Cities of Napa, St. Helena, Calistoga and Town of Yountville for March year over year.
 

MARCH

2012

MARCH

2011

 

# of sales

Avg DOM

# of sales

Avg DOM

Napa County

136

115

136

125

City of Napa

92

120

90

136

Yountville

4

156

5

195

St. Helena

6

111

6

127

Calistoga

4

252

3

123

March 2012 year over year for California

  • California’s housing inventory declined in March, with the Unsold Inventory Index for existing, single-family detached homes decreasing to 4.1 months in March, down from a revised 5.4 months in February and down from the 5.4-month supply in March 2011.  The index indicates the number of months needed to sell the supply of homes on the market at the current sales rate.  A 7-month supply is considered normal.
  • Interest rates edged up slightly in March.  Thirty-year fixed-mortgage interest rates averaged 3.95 percent during March 2012, down from 4.84 percent in March 2011, according to Freddie Mac.  Adjustable-mortgage interest rates averaged 2.77 percent in March 2012, compared with 3.22 percent in March 2011.
  • The median number of days it took to sell a single-family home fell to 53.1 days in March 2012 and was down from a revised 57 days for the same period a year ago
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Comments(6)

Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

It's nice to see the marketing time coming down, thought it seems to have gone up in Calistoga County.  Any idea why?

Apr 25, 2012 01:38 AM
Curtis Van Carter
Better Homes & Gardens Wine Country Group - Yountville, CA
Your Napa Valley Broker Extraordinaire

Chris Ann

Here is the info for the 4 that sold then. Note the two sales which were on the market for 491 & 261 days. With such low numbers, doesn't take much to distort these stats, cheers cvc

 
21128404   
SFR Sold S $230,000 145/153 8 Miriam Dr Calistoga E0500 3 2 (2 0) 1330 0.120 ac          
 
21129057   
SFR Sold S $555,000 111/111 1560 Centennial Cir Calistoga E0500 3 2 (2 0) 2326 0.180 ac              
 
21029057   
SFR Sold S $1,087,500 491/491 5835 sharp Rd Calistoga E0500 4 3 (2 1) 2685 6.240 ac          
 
21111254   
SFR Sold S $1,100,000 261/261 4125 Silverado Trl Calistoga E0500 1 2 (1 1) 1481 6.000 ac
Apr 25, 2012 01:57 AM
John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque Homes Realty - Albuquerque, NM
Honesty, Integrity, Results, Experienced. HIRE Me!

Hi Curtis -

Good Napa Valley market report.  We're seeing very few high end homes such as you have provided selling right now. We're seeing a hot market for first time buyers and buyers moving up a notch.  Custom homes are still slow but new track home construction is hot.  It's never dull in this business.... 

Enjoy a great day in Napa Valley my friend.

Apr 25, 2012 02:22 AM
Curtis Van Carter
Better Homes & Gardens Wine Country Group - Yountville, CA
Your Napa Valley Broker Extraordinaire

John

The upper end here is finally starting to have some sales. $1m + are about double from a year ago. cheers cvc

Apr 25, 2012 02:34 AM
Toni Weidman
Sailwinds Realty - Trinity, FL
20+ Years Selling Homes in New Port Richey, FL

Curtis - great report on Napa Valley; our market is nowhere near those prices and our high-end is not moving well so far this year.

Apr 25, 2012 05:38 AM
Yolanda Cordova-Gilbert
Richmond, TX

Curtis,

            Great market report. We are at a sellers market here. People are coming in here trying to deal and wheel. The number is the number. I ask them why would you sell your home for 300K when you know you will get $350 for it if you just wait and can afford to. I have lost 2 people because they think they can get these huge discounts those days are gone! Plus we never did it anyway. I wish people would recommend a good value.

 

 

Apr 25, 2012 06:52 AM