Friday, October 30, 2009

Sunriver Real Estate Q4 2009 progress report

The $10 million carry over of 23 pending deals and 8 new deals in October has us with a current potential of 31 transactions totaling and estimated $12.4 million in volume for Q4 09. What we would really like to see is the quarter top $14.3 million which would give us our first quarter over quarter gain in over a year.

Sunriver has 191 homes currently on the market. That number will most likely drift down over the winter from the summer high of 232. Most Brokers in Central Oregon believe that the housing market here has bottomed out and that we are bumping along the bottom. If the economy continues to improve, unemployment levels off and starts to improve and the banks start lending again we will start to see housing improve.

I will update these numbers at the end of November, Happy Halloween!!!!




Saturday, October 3, 2009

Sunriver Real Estate Q3 2009 final results

We closed out Q3 09 with a transaction volume of $10.3 million and 27 closed deals. By comparison Q3 08 had 25 closed deals and $12. 5 million in volume. Q3 09 had a carryover of pending deals from Q2 of $3.3 million and 10 transactions. The good new is that the carry over from Q3 09 to Q4 09 is 23 transactions and $10 million in volume. Q4 08 had 27 transactions and 14.3 million in volume, with the big carry over from Q3 09 to Q4 09 we could finally see a quarter over quarter $ volume increase in Q4 numbers.

Sorry for all the numbers, but they do tell the story. We are selling as many or more home than we sold last year in Sunriver, they are just less expensive homes. The market is improving because sellers are pricing there homes to sell and interest rates are now finally back below 5%.

The combination of low prices and low interest rates makes this truly the best of times if you are a buyer.