In the month of August the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors reported 895 closed single-family, detached homes and condos. Almost tied with the 898 sold this past July and 5% below sales we experienced in August of 2013. We also saw more than 950 pending sales in August. I’m encouraged by those closing numbers and at the same time I am closely monitoring supply and demand as with 1700 new listings in the month of August we have an oversupply of inventory of 5500 homes.
As usual, we saw quite a bit of activity in the Northeast Heights. What was different this time around was an increase in activity in some areas West of Coors. The southwest and northwest heights each had more than 40 sales in the month of August. I have to mention the East Mountains, as I do quite a bit of business out there and also live out there. The market is still very slow. In fact in the month of August there were only 41 detached homes sold. That’s less than 5% of the total detached sales in the Greater Albuquerque Area. That area continues to be a challenge, but we are seeing activity. That’s why it is so important for today’s sellers in these tougher areas to be realistic about pricing and realize that they are constantly in a price war and a beauty contest.
Maintaining our market’s consistency, we saw most of the sales in August under that $250,000 mark. In fact 75% of sales last month were under $250,000. 22% of total sales were of homes and condos in the $250,000 to $500,000 range. That means only 3% of sales were over $500,000.
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