Life & Real Estate in Eugene, Springfield & Lane County, Oregon

  Here's a comparison of the number of ACTIVE LISTINGS, number of CLOSED SALES

      and the AVERAGE PRICE for residential listings

   for the MONTHS OF MARCH,

   2006 - 2011

    for the

    COASTAL LANE COUNTY

market areas, including Florence, Dunes City and Mapleton, OR

   as reported by the Portland Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS):

 This February and March,  the inventory in Coastal Lane decreased, contining a slide from the 2009 high

while sales were up slightly from this month last year.

 Last month, regarding February I said, "It is astonishing that average price continues a four-year climb in the face of such high inventory.

 If other months looked as good as February...."

Unlike February, March now has no four-year price trend upward. 

But, gleefully March now has a one-year uptick in Average Price.

NOTE: Florence and Coastal Lane County joined Eugene, Springfield and the rest of Lane County in the Portland Regional Multiple Listing Service only in recent years. While small numbers of homes have always been sold through the valley multiple, data before 2006 is not comparable to that shown here.

    THE MOST MEANINGFUL LOOK AT DATA FOR HOMES FOR SALE IN

       NORTHERN LANE COUNTY'S JUNCTION CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT

            IS TO COMPARE

           THE CURRENT MONTH WITH THE SAME MONTH IN PRIOR YEARS

In March, as in February,  inventory in the JUNCTION CITY area headed down

  (following recent months) from a decade high last year.

    The number of closed sales was lower than in the past two years

but about the same as in 2008 and 2009.

   The average price continues to languish:  with mostly homes at lower price points actually moving.

      Here, for the

     JUNCTION CITY

         RMLS Market Area, are:

    A decade's worth of supply (Active Listings) and demand (Closed Sales)
for the

  Months of MARCH

   2001 - 2012:

  And a decade of Average Prices for Closed Sales
for the

  Months of MARCH

  2001 - 2012:

 These average sales prices represent the arithmetic mean for those residential closed sales in this RMLS market area.   The mix of homes sold varies over time.  The average price for some months is drastically affected by an unusual number of homes selling at the TOP or BOTTOM of the range of prices.  A history of the variation in the statistical median would make for a better comparison but is unavailable from RMLS.

  THE MOST MEANINGFUL LOOK AT DATA FOR HOMES FOR SALE IN EUGENE, OR

      IS TO COMPARE THE REAL ESTATE NUMBERS

    THE CURRENT MONTH WITH THE SAME MONTH IN PRIOR YEARS

In MARCH, 2012 the number of closed sales in Santa Clara was at a four-year low, but the inventory in terms of active listings also reached a four-year low.  Of the two, the reduction n the inventory was the more important.

Sales price was level with last year....a glimmer of evidence that the market may be stabilized

- at long last. 

For the

      SANTA CLARA

      RMLS Market Area are:

   A decade's worth of supply (Active Listings) and demand (Closed Sales)
for the

     Months of MARCH

   2001 - 2012:

And a decade of Average Prices for Closed Sales
for the

      Months of MARCH

     2001 - 2012:

These average sales prices represent the arithmetic mean for those residential closed sales in this RMLS market area.   The mix of homes sold varies over time.  The average price for some months is drastically affected by an unusual number of homes selling at the TOP or BOTTOM of the range of prices.  A history of the variation in the statistical median would make for a better comparison but is unavailable from RMLS for invivdual market areas.

What's really happening with the inventory of single family homes for sale in Springfield, Oregon's

   THURSTON

     RMLS real estate market area?

Just how big a factor are distressed properties?

      How much of the available inventory

       is made up of Bank-Owned (i.e. foreclosed) homes for sale?

   How many real estate listings are Short Sales?

  How many are good-old, true-blue Regular Sales?

      
Here is the hard data for active listings from the Regional Multiple Listing Service:

What's really happening with the inventory of single family homes for sale in Springfield, Oregon's

  HAYDEN BRIDGE

    RMLS market area?

Just how big a factor are distressed properties?

     How much of the available inventory

      is made up of Bank-Owned (i.e. foreclosed) homes for sale?

  How many real estate listings are Short Sales?

 How many are good-old, true-blue Regular Sales?

     
Here is the hard data for active listings from the Regional Multiple Listing Service:

What's really happening with the inventory of single family homes for sale in Eugene, Oregon's

  WEST EUGENE

   RMLS market area?

Just how big a factor are distressed properties?

    How much of the available inventory

     is made up of Bank-Owned (i.e. foreclosed) homes for sale?

 How many real estate listings are Short Sales?

     
Here is the hard data for active listings from the Regional Multiple Listing Service:

What's really happening with the inventory of single family homes for sale in Eugene, Oregon's

  SOUTHWEST EUGENE

   RMLS market area?

Just how big a factor are distressed properties?

    How much of the available inventory

    is made up of Bank-Owned (i.e. foreclosed) homes for sale?

 How many real estate listings are Short Sales?

     
Here is the hard data for active listings from the Regional Multiple Listing Service:

What's really happening with the inventory of single family homes for sale in Eugene, Oregon's

 EAST EUGENE

   RMLS market area?

Just how big a factor are distressed properties?

    How much of the available inventory

   is made up of Bank-Owned (i.e. foreclosed) homes for sale?

 How many real estate listings are Short Sales?

     
Here is the hard data for active listings from the Regional Multiple Listing Service:

What's really happening with the inventory of single family homes for sale in Eugene, Oregon's

DANEBO

  RMLS market area?

Just how big a factor are distressed properties?

   How much of the available inventory

  is made up of Bank-Owned (i.e. foreclosed) homes for sale?

    
Here is the hard data for active listings from the Regional Multiple Listing Service:

What's really happening with the inventory of single family homes for sale in Eugene, Oregon's

RIVER ROAD

  RMLS market area?

Just how big a factor are distressed properties?

   How much of the available inventory

 is made up of Bank-Owned (i.e. foreclosed) homes for sale?

   
Here is the hard data for active listings from the Regional Multiple Listing Service: