Imbalance Between Buyers and Sellers Grows Further For the 15th straight month, the average ratio of selling price to list price in the San Mateo real estate market was over 100%, echoing the frenzy of the 2004 to 2006 timeframe. The ratio was 107.2% in March 2013, the highest since April 2005. A ratio above 100% means ...
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Imbalance Between Buyers and Sellers Grows Further For the 14th straight month, the average ratio of selling price to list price in the San Mateo real estate market was over 100%, echoing the frenzy of the 2005/2006 timeframe. The ratio was 107.0% in March 2013, the highest since April 2005. A ratio above 100% means tha...
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Newly Listed Homes Selling Quickly A greater percentage of listings are selling in San Mateo County and those that are selling are doing so very quickly. In the first three months of 2013, there were 183 listings that were expired or removed from the market. Not all of these listings represent a failure to find a buyer. Ma...
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Imbalance Between Buyers and Sellers.... For the 13th straight month, the average ratio of selling price to list price in the San Mateo real estate market was over 100%.  The last time a streak like this occurred was in 2005/2006. The ratio was 105.7% in February 2013. A ratio above 100% means that the average sale is ...
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Imbalance Between Buyers and Sellers For the 12th straight month, the average ratio of selling price to list price in the San Mateo real estate market was over 100%.  The last time a streak like this occurred was in 2005/2006. The ratio was 103% in January 2013. A ratio above 100% means that the average...
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Buyers Continue to Bid Against Each Other The average ratio of selling price to list price in the San Mateo real estate market continues to be over 100%. It was 104% in October 2012, the ninth straight month above 100%. Prior to this streak, the last time the ratio went above 100% was in late 2007. We are in the midst of...
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Signs of Rising Prices Data from recent transactions suggests homes prices are rising in the San Mateo neighborhoods of Aragon, Baywood, and Baywood Knolls. Average and median selling values are above $1.4 million in 2012, up about 5% from prior year figures. The average price per square foot has averaged $622 in 2012. In ...
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Clear Signs of Price Appreciation All signs point to recent price appreciation in the residential real estate markets in San Mateo County.  While some of the submarkets have been strong since the end of 2011, data for the whole county suggests that the general market turned upward in the spring of 2012.  In May 2012, the...
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