Posted on Monday, January 19, 2015
This time of year many a Naples resident returns from the up north holidays and we receive a big boost in population, business and real estate interest – and this month is no exception .
Our open houses are drawing good volumes of interested buyers and we put another one under contract last week. This weekend it was off the Silverspot to see “The Imitation Game.” I think we imitated New York City and Chicago downtown parking with not a spot to be found street level and the only recourse the high altitude stuff in the parking garage. Naples is humming.
A look at the all Naples inventory in the Matrix MLS this morning shows we are at 6.3 months – a level very supportive of future price increases. Volumes are running along at the brisk pace of 2,817 sales every three months and sellers are putting more places up for sale.
We thought by this time the new construction projects would start to slow the re-sale market down but not yet. An estimated 50% of all sales goes to new construction and yet the re-sale market continues to roar along.
Sellers are getting near what they ask as we see the closed to ask ratio tightening over last month’s level to 96.65%. Sellers are still in command. Please be aware overpriced homes and/or homes in poor condition are sitting for 100‘s of days on the market so sellers must fairly price even in these markets.
Average days on market increased to 41 days from 34 days last month indicating buyers are taking their time or we have more sellers testing the market with higher price points. This slow down is the first sign we have seen in a while in the recent boom.
The last piece of our mid-month snapshot is average condo sale price trends. Remember just before the last down fall condo prices started to fall – a full year before the single family home market crash. What are condo price trends mid month? Up and up a lot. Prices rose to $242,000+ over $212,000+ last month so we are still on our way up here.
Despite the increased days on market figure we see rising prices continuing for a while based on good volume, short supplies and tight close to ask ratios.
Look for our monthly neighborhood by neighborhood analysis in a couple of weeks at month end and have a more detailed look at the Naples real estate market area by area.
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Mark Goebel, PA is a REALTOR with Coldwell Banker on 5th avenue in Naples, Florida with 35+ years of visiting and living in Naples. After 25 years at Accenture, Mark retired as a managing director and spends his time helping non profits and building a Naples real estate team with his wife Nan. Talk to Mark and Nan about life in Naples and why they chose this place to live full-time over all others and enjoy Naples real estate.
