Q1 2024 Market ReportMuch like the close of 2023, the Monterey Peninsula's real estate market had a sleepy start to 2024. The typical rainy and windy weather conditions throughout the opening months of the year paired with continued economic pressure on both the entry level and luxury ends of the market led to a slow first two months of the year. The entry level market remained uneasy due to lingering elevated interest rates. The higher end of the market stayed slow over the winter months due to macro-economic uncertainty, geopolitical concerns, and other distractions that kept most affluent buyers on the sidelines. Luckily, as we moved into March, we felt a surge of activity. After 91 new listings in January and 98 more in February, March saw 152 new listings come to market. This was the highest number of new listings we have seen come on the market in one calendar month since June of 2022. |
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Q1 2024 Market Report Much like the close of 2023, the Monterey Peninsula's real estate market had a sleepy start to 2024. The typical rainy and windy weather conditions throughout the opening months of the year paired with continued economic pressure on both the entry level and luxury ends of the market led to a slow first two months of the year. The entry level market remained uneasy due to lingering elevated interest rates. The higher end of the market stayed slow over the winter months due to macro-economic uncertainty, geopolitical concerns, and other distractions that kept most affluent buyers on the sidelines. Luckily, as we moved into March, we felt a surge of activity. After 91 new listings in January and 98 more in February, March saw 152 new listings come to market. This was the highest number of new listings we have seen come on the market in one calendar month since June of 2022. |
4/19/2024 | |
2023 Annual Market Report | 2/27/2024 | |
2022 Annual Market Report Following two years of extraordinary growth, the real estate market on the Monterey Peninsula has normalized. The number of transactions, total dollar volume and average sale pricesall hit record highs beginning in the second half of 2020 and continuing into the first half of 2022. However, beginning in the summer of 2022, the number of transactions and total sales dollar volume has returned for the most part to pre-COVID levels. The positive news is that while transaction volume is down significantly from the previous two-year peak, home values on the Peninsula are holding up nicely. In this regard, once again, our market is greatly outperforming most markets across the country. Please read on to learn more about your area! |
1/31/2023 | |
April 2022 Newsletter from The Arnold Team Market inventory continues to be very tight as the number of Buyers far outweigh the number of available homes. Even with climbing mortgage interest rates, demand remains strong. We continue to see homes selling over list price, some substantially over. |
4/27/2022 |