Monday Market Memo, June 23-30, 2008 | Wasilla Real Estate News, Valley Market Real Estate

Monday Market Memo, June 23-30, 2008 June 30th, 2008

Wasilla Real Estate News residential sales statistics for the Mat-Su Borough. This report includes the sales in Palmer, Wasilla, Talkeetna, Willow, Big Lake, Houston, Sutton and all the other communities in the Borough.

Over 80% of the real estate activity is in the Wasilla and Palmer areas with the outlying areas occupying only a small fraction of the business.

Sales activity was definitely up this week. I think the pending sales are the highest so far this year. Closed sales hit 32 so that is healthy as well.

		Average Price	DOM
New	51	$350,000	.
Total Active	913	285,671	128
Pending	44	$222,884	89
Closed	32	$243,833	66

I believe that many buyers that were waiting in the wings have seen the higher interest rates on the horizon and decided to step in now rather than wait.

It is not uncommon to see a slight drop in sales activity during the mid-summer months was people entertain out of town guests, fish and generally enjoy the short Alaska summer. But it seems that serious buyers are definitely still out there.

Buyers that want to be in a house before school starts really need to make their choices now. School starts in just over 6 weeks and that gives just enough time to complete a normal transaction.

Written by Marty Van Diest 1 Comment »

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Jim Johnson CRS said at July 5th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Great Blog! I have been selling real estate in Bend Oregon since 1981 and find it refreshing to find a helpful blog like yours! Keep up the good work!