The preliminary number for February indicate that homeowners in the Boise metro area have stopped reducing the price of their homes in order to sell them, according to Zillow.com’s data source.
As indicated by industry sources, and revealed in a Reuters report yet to be released, January median home prices did follow the previous downward direction.
Nearly one in five homes, or 19.5%, listed for sale on the Zillow website had at least one price reduction as of the end of February, down from 19.8% in January, sources said.
Home sellers reduced prices by a median 6.7% in February, down from 6.8% in January.
This tendency is not new to the Boise real estate market either, because it has been the trend over each of the last 12 months in a row. The February home sales numbers did not look too hot either, considering Zillow reports that an 8.7% price drop was shown over 33% of listed homes.
The median list price of homes fell 1.4% in February from January, to $205,000, which is down 6.8% from the median listing price in February 2009, sources said.
The Boise real estate statistics continue to improve with the median day on market dropping from 109 in January to 105 days in February sources reported. The greatest reduction in the median days on market category was in August which posted only a median of 90 days on market.
Zillow reported that the Boise real estate market had a median days on market number of 109 days.
What this means for many property owners is that the inventory is being absorbed at predictable rates that would allow for price changes accordingly. Many Boise real estate sellers will have to use this information to plan on reducing their prices to keep pace with the market as it continues to show a slow pace this winter sales season. If this is not taken into account you may find yourself in the unfavorable situation of trying to catch up on a declining market and use up all of your equity.
This allows Boise real estate buyers the time to carefully consider exactly what they want and to patiently plan exactly how they are going to get a home that meets all their needs. It has been reported consistently for the past 2 years that we are in a “buyers market”, but the best homes always go fast, so know what you are looking for ahead of time.
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