How To Use The Housing Turnover Rate To Beat Your Competition

If you are thinking about selling a home in the near future, make sure you determine the housing turnover rate for your neighborhood.

The housing turnover rate is simply the pace at which homes are selling for homes like yours, in your area, and often times this is referred to as the "liquidity" in the market.

So many homeowners allow a real estate agent to give them pricing guidance without first understanding the liquidity in the market, and that is a great way to join the ranks of other people who have failed to sell a home.

Study Supply To Find The Housing Turnover Rate

When we are looking for the housing turnover rate in Tallahassee, we find a market that is purely working in the favor of buyers right now. The following table shows the relative supply of homes for sale in Tallahassee, and every single area and every single price range is still above 6 months of supply.

As an example (in the table above), the Northeast Tallahassee housing market has 12.4 months of supply of homes priced between $250,000 and $300,000. Simply put, if no new homes enter the market at that price point (and nobody in the price range above reduces their price into it), then we have all the homes need for more than 12 months at our current rate of demand. This is not good if you own a $250,000 home to sell in Tallahassee.

Tallahassee Housing Turnover Rate

The following table shows the housing turnover rate in Tallahassee. It is the current monthly rate of demand (the number of homes that should sell each month in the Tallahassee MLS/ not seasonally adjusted).

So using the $250,000 to $300,000 price range in NE Tallahassee, home sellers should expect 10 homes to sell each month. Of course, we know that fewer homes sell this time each year than do so in the Summer, so I would expect 8 to sell in the month of September. If you have a home to sell in this price range and area, don't you need to be one of the top 8 best deals in order to sell this month?

Competition And The Housing Turnover Rate

Now that we know the current housing turnover rate, we only need to look at the competition to help us determine the best price point, right?

Again, using the $250,000 to $300,000 priced homes in NE Tallahassee, we can see that there are 124 on the market. If you want to give your home the best chance to be sold in the next thirty days, you have to be among the best 8 homes in this 124 home group (top 6%). That's right, only 6.5% of these homes on the market will sell in September, will one of them be yours?

It can be! If you would like to know how to get your home sold fast, by having a great understanding of the housing turnover rate, just drop me a note and we can schedule a time to evaluate your home and your specific situation.

Joe Manausa, MBA
Century 21 Manausa & Associates
www.manausa.com

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