Here's the latest from MAAR:
Once again, the big story in this week's activity report is the huge upswing in pending sales activity relative to one year ago. For the week ending August 23, there were 818 pending sales, an increase of 26.8 percent from the same week in 2007. Over the last three weeks, we have now posted 545 more pending sales than over the same three weeks last year.
Part of this year's increase is due to legitimate increases in demand brought about by attractive prices, still-healthy mortgage rates and a "last call" flurry of consumers utilizing FHA's seller-funded downpayment assistance program before it is discontinued on October 1. The other reason for the year-over-year surge is the Valley Fair-esque downward dive that activity took last year at this time amidst the initial media frenzy surrounding the now-infamous "credit crunch."
The supply of homes for sale continues to decrease, now down 7.7 percent from last year. For September, our Supply-Demand Ratio is 9.29, which means there are 9.29 homes for sale for each buyer in the market. This is a hearty 24.2 percent decline from last September and is due to the falling supply and rising demand.
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Congratulations, it seems low prices are finally fueling your market. We are at heading towards the opposite direction here - I am West Toronto realtor and sales here dropped last month 12% (14% in the City of Toronto). It is slowly causing nervousness. But I believe there is no reason to panic. Prices are still holding their position and there is no big flow of new listings.
On the other hand, this crisis has cleaned your markets at least...:)
Regards,
Jill
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