August 13, 2012 (Chris Moore)
Existing home sales remained flat for a third consecutive week, rising a modest 0.2 percent from the previous week according to the weekly National Home Sales Snapshot released by DataQuick. Home prices also ended the week slightly higher, reaching a median price of $200,000 for the first time in over three years.
There were 217,931 properties sold over the previous thirty-day rolling period ending August 9th, up 518 sales from the previous week’s total of 217,413 sold properties and only 0.5 percent higher than the 216,818 properties sold four weeks ago.
Sales volume was 14.1 percent above the previous year’s cycle peak of 190,934 sales which occurred during the 30-day rolling period prior to September 1st.
Last week’s home sales volume was 12.4 percent higher than the 193,849 homes sold during the same period a year ago and was 6.3 percent higher than during the same period three years ago when 205,028 homes were sold.
The median price of a home sold over the current thirty-day rolling period increased by $500 from last week to $200,000 and was 2.5 percent higher than what it was four weeks ago when the median sales price was $195,000.
Home prices were 6.2 percent higher than the same period a year ago when the median price of a home was $188,400 and were 5.3 percent higher than what they were three years ago when the median price was also $190,000. It was the 18th consecutive week that year-over-year home prices surpassed the previous year’s levels.
Over the last five years, median home prices nationwide have ranged from a high of $275,000 to a low of $168,500.
Home sales volume over the last five years has ranged from a high of 339,669 properties sold to a low of 124,051.
The National Home Sales Snapshot includes 98 out of the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas covering 66.25 percent of U.S. home sales.
Tags: DataQuick, home sales, median home price, sales volume
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DataQuick
