volume: Missoula's 1st half sales volume in 2014 - 07/17/14 08:04 AM
It's just beyond halftime in Missoula's real estate market.  I wanted to get a quick summary together to take a look at the first 6 months of real estate data in our area so we can look at how things have fared in Missoula, and where it's headed.
 
Overall the first half has seen a slower pace of sales than the year before.  So should we panic?  No, I don't think so.  The first six months of 2014 had 449 total residential sales, down 76 total sales compared to the 1st half of 2013 which had 525 sales.  That's a … (18 comments)

volume: First look at Missoula's 2013 Real Estate stats - 01/20/14 06:58 AM
While we're already just about 3 weeks into the new year I figured it was as good a time as any to give you all an early look at how the residential real estate market in Missoula turned out.  As you'll see in the charts below Missoula has seen continued recovery, which is great.  There are some other mixed signals coming out now and some challenges ahead, I'll touch on those in a bit.
First off, how did Missoula do in 2013?  The quick answer, pretty darn good.  Missoula's residential market saw it's sales figures climb back up over 1000 homes … (18 comments)

volume: Missoula's volume figures through the 3rd quarter - 10/05/12 03:05 AM
Missoula has just kicked off its 4th quarter and the market is still moving at a tremendous pace compared to years before.   As always, here are some numbers to show you how things are going in our little college town here in Western Montana.
Missoula’s 3rd quarter was a busy one, in our valley we saw 298 residential sales occur.  This is up compared to last year by 51 homes, or an increase in sales volume by 21%.  To find the last time the 3rd quarter had similar numbers you’d have to go back to 2007 where we saw 403 sales … (0 comments)

volume: Missoula's continuing its strong start to the year, but... - 02/24/12 12:48 AM
Volume in Missoula continues to do well, today is Februrary 24th (77 residential sales in the Missoula Valley YTD / 177 total sales in the MLS YTD).  Missoula as well as the entire MLS have not out-paced our quicker start in volume of sales since 2008... that's right pre "bubble" considering it was the start of 2008.  I went back and looked at volume of 1/1 - 2/24 going all the way back to 2003, you can see the "ramp-up" and the cool down, and now the slow and steady volume recovery.  I'm very encouraged to see that volume is continuing … (0 comments)

volume: Starting the year off strong: Missoula's early numbers - 02/11/12 06:05 AM
It's bee a time of reflection for me, just about 1 year ago my mother decided to close down the local RE/MAX franchise that she'd owned for 16 years.  As a group most of our office joined up with the local Windermere office and we've loved it.  The Missoula market was very choppy at that time, our early winter/spring was the worst we'd seen in terms of volume.  We came out of the winter with a solid summer market but the lasting effects of a down winter wound up putting Missoula's volume of sales at another decline compared to the years … (1 comments)