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Kelowna and Central Okanagan December 2010 Stats

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Real Estate Agent with Century 21 Assurance Realty Ltd.

Ratio of Sales vs. Total Inventory = 5.43%

Condo -- Sales = 44

Condo -- New Listings  = 166

Condo -- Current Inventory = 884

Condo -- Sell/Inv. Ratio = 4.98%

Condo -- Days to Sell = 119

Average Price: $237,066

Average Median Price: $217,450

 

Townhouse -- Sales = 21

Townhouse -- New Listings = 85

Townhouse -- Current Inventory = 440

Townhouse -- Sell/Inv. Ratio = 4.77%

Townhouse -- Days to Sell = 118

Average Price: $313,600

Average Median Price: $303,000

 

Lots -- Sales = 7

Lots -- New Listings = 47

Lots -- Current Inventory = 578

Lots -- Sell/Inv. Ratio = 1.21%

Lots -- Days to Sell = 126

Average Price: $296,071

Average Median Price: $215,000

 

Residential -- Sales = 104

Residential -- New Listings = 273

Residential -- Current Inventory = 1,340

Residential -- Sell/Inv. Ratio = 7.76%

Residential -- Days to Sell = 89

Average House Price = $440,123

Median House Price = $407,500  

 

Description                                      Total Listings Taken                                            Inventory

This Month                                                709                                                                4,413

Last Month                                                757                                                                4,676

This Month Last Year                               652                                                                4,559

 

Description                                      Total Units Sold                                                Total Sales Volume

This Month                                                210                                                               $130,028,594

Last Month                                                280                                                                 $93,584,049

This Month Last Year                               326                                                               $197,776,997

 

The Central Zone of the Okanagan Mainline Real Estate Board (OMREB) reported December 2010 sales activity of all MLS® property types slowed from last month and are down from sales reported at this time last year.  Despite a decline in new listings and overall inventory levels buyers are still enjoying a large selection of residential properties.

The listing inventory historically at this time of year sees a sharp decline as Sellers opt to wait for the following Spring to relist their properties.  The prevailing mentatilty amongst these types of Sellers is that there are not many Buyers looking at homes during the Winter months.  The truth is there are better quality showings in the late Fall and Winter months as Buyers looking at this time of year are quite serious and need to purchase.  Those Sellers that choose to stay the course over the Winter are actually quite pleased they decided not to remove their homes from the marketplace!

Active year-to-date  listings fell  4.64% compared to 2010 and new listings taken in December were down 14.42% from 2009 (445 compared to 520) - a 37% drop over last month (707).  Overall sales declined 34.5% compared to December 2009 (to 169 from 258), and total residential units sold decreased 36.8% (to 146 from 231) - down 21.5% from last month (186).

Year-to-date total sales volume for all property types slightly dipped by only 7.36% at the end of 2010 compared to the same 12-month period in 2009 (to $1.493 billion from $1.562 billion).

Complete OMREB Statistics and Statistical Graph for December 2010

Disclaimer: Monthly sales statistics are based on the sales reported by real estate offices as of the last day of the month.  As a result, there may be some lag time in reporting sales and other minor adjustments in the total results are made accordingly.

If you would like more in depth statistics or have any general questions please contact me at (250) 808-7700 or at jason.neumann@century21.ca

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Sincerely,

Jason Neumann

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