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Fairbanks, Alaska Real Estate Market Update - Nov 22, 2007

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Home Builder with Jesse Clifton & Associates AREC License #15292
Fairbanks continues to feel the effects of the housing slowdown. 13 homes sold this week ranging in price from a $115,000 fixer-upper to a unique $395,000 hillside property that spent more than 14 months on the market. This represents a near 20% drop in the number of home sales from this time last year.

Three new construction properties went off the market, including one zero-lot line in Lazelle Estates. Not to worry, if bland, homogenous, expressway adjoining townhouses are your style there are still more than two dozen available.

549 homes are currently available for sale with an average of 138 days on the market. This week the absorption rate (the time it will take to sell all the listings currently for sale) jumped to 5.25 months from 4.8 last week.

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Comments(2)

Marchel Peterson
Results Realty - Spring, TX
Spring TX Real Estate E-Pro
Jesse & Kathy, I did not realize Alaska has been affected by the slow down also.  Our daughter thinks she wants to move to Alaska but as a flight attentdant it would probably be Anchorage.  She is presently working as a flight attendant in NYC but plans on coming back west and her idea of west is Alaska.
Nov 25, 2007 10:27 AM
Jesse Clifton
Jesse Clifton & Associates - Fairbanks, AK

Hi, Marchel

We started seeing the effects in June/July of '06 and it slowly morphed into a market wide slowdown.  Our upper end homes have taken the hardest hit; some have lost upwards of 30% of their value since '06.  We've also overbuilt in North Pole (bedroom community) which hasn't helped. 

You daughter will probably love Anchorage.  If we were not planning to retire in a few years we would be looking at Anchorage as it has a lot to offer. It has all the shopping she could want, entertainment, arts, great restaurants, etc... and best of all it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been... and there are more than a few miles under these old feet. :)

 

Nov 26, 2007 05:48 PM