Homes for Sale in Naples Florida
The homes for sale in Bonita Springs continue to show signs of improvement. While still a buyer’s market, the homes available for sale are declining as well as the months of inventory declining.
The month of February started with 827 homes available for sale in the Bonita Springs area. Last February 1092 homes were for sale in a year over year comparison it is a decline of [Read more...]
During the month of August 117 Bonita Springs homes were listed for sale. For the same month in 2007, 149 homes were listed for sale; this represents a decrease of 21.5 percent. The increase from 2006 was 10.7 percent from the 131 new listings. In July 2008 there were a total of 110 homes listed for sale and in June 129 homes.
Potential short sale homes listed in August was 12 or 10.3 percent and 6 homes or 5.1 percent are listed as a foreclosure, REO or bank owned.
Village Walk of Bonita Springs had the largest number of potential short sales – 4 with a median list price of $227500. The remaining potential short sale homes were listed in numerous developments.
The Bonita Springs homes listed as foreclosures were spread through various developments.
The inventory of available Bonita Springs homes for sale in February was 1201 homes or about 33 months. At the start of August the inventory had dropped by 217 homes or 18.1 percent to 984 homes or about 26 months. [Read more...]
During the month of August 73 Estero homes were listed for sale. For the same month in 2007, 59 homes were listed for sale; this represents an increase of 23.7 percent. The increase from 2006 was 17.7 percent from the 62 new listings. In July 2008 there were a total of 66 homes listed for sale and in June 66 homes.
The number of homes available for sale in Estero has dropped from 575 homes in February 2008 to 456 at the end of August. This represents a reduction of about 20.7 percent. In terms of the number of months of homes to sell it is presently at 20 months versus 32 months in February. [Read more...]
Prior to presenting the analysis for August we need to reflect on the events which took place last August 15 – the sub-prime and liberal loan programs came to a screaming halt along with liquidity issues for lenders lasting for a couple of months. The result was a further weakening of already weak real estate market. Sub-prime and liberal loan programs accounted for about 16 percent of the purchases which had taken place previous to August 2007.
Going forward the monthly statistics will bear monitoring to assess the strengthening or weakening of the of the Naples home market.
Strengthening does not necessarily mean price appreciation, but takes into effect a lower volume of new listings (even though it is anticipated more listings will come on the market due to seasonal fluctuations), pending sales increasing, and closed sales over the previous year.
Weakening of the market will reflect just the opposite.
Another consideration to be explored is how developments or subdivisions where subprime borrowing took place may affect the overall performance statistics for the overall Naples home market, and leaving both sellers and buyers with what could be incorrect perceptions. An example of this is being seen in the drastic decline of the median price paid for homes during the month August in the year over year analysis; however, after excluding some developments or subdivisions the median price decline is not quite so drastic. Proving once again that real estate is so local that it has to be looked very closely. [Read more...]
During the month of June 69 Estero homes were listed for sale. For the same month in 2007, 86 homes were listed for sale; this represents a decrease of 19.8 percent. The decrease from 2006 was 22.5 percent from the 89 new listings. In May 2008 there were a total of 48 homes listed for sale.
A total of 25 homes were sold during June 2008. Comparing the same month in 2007 there were a total of 26 homes sold, represents [Read more...]