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Los Gatos Home Sales Trends

Los Gatos Home Sales Trends

The following chart shows median and average price trends plus sales in the Los Gatos real estate market of single family homes (this is for the zip codes 95030 and 95032, not the mountain areas of 95033). The chart uses a 12-month moving average to eliminate any seasonal variation. Note that overall, prices of sold homes continue to rise, even as the number of sales has been declining.

The next chart is the same as above but uses a 3-month moving average. This smoothes out month-to-month variations yet shows seasonal variations. What is unusual here is that the number of sales is not rebounding as much as is seasonally normal.

This chart shows the current inventory of homes for sale compared to the number that have sold. The larger the gap between inventory and sales, the harder it is to sell, of course. So it is a little amazing that prices are rising at all.

The next series of charts shows the same real estate data as above but for condominiums and town homes in the Town of Los Gatos. As you can see, it's a little harder on the condo and townhome market in Los Gatos. Prices do not appear to be rising in this segment of the market.

For detailed information on specific homes or neighborhoods, contact me.. And to see more neighborhoods and more data, please visit my online report: http://www.rereport.com/sj/winmph/

Data collected from MLSListings.com (REInfolink), compiled by ReReport.com - used by permission (I am a subscriber)

Mary Pope-Handy
Realtor,  CRS, ABR, e-PRO, SRES, ASP, RECS, CNHS, ACRE

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RE: Los Gatos Home Sales Trends

Posted by: Steve Leung
Date: Mar. 17, 2008
Hi Mary, thanks for sharing.  In addition to showing the seasonal fluctuations, I like to show year-over-year stats to give an apples-to-apples comparison.  That way consumers can see exactly what the market changes are without having to interpret how seasonal demand shifts.  For example, there was some interesting movement in inventory numbers year-over-year between Feb 06 - Feb 08 in Los Gatos.

Cheers,
Steve

RE: Los Gatos Home Sales Trends

Posted by: Mary Pope-Handy
Date: Mar. 17, 2008
Good point, Steve. I have sometimes done posts like that - where I did nothing but November of each year going back several years. The graphs above go back more than a year, but I can certainly pull a few Februarys for the readers here. Thanks for the suggestion!

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