July’s median sales price for the Reno and Sparks, Nevada housing market was unchanged from June’s $250,000. The current $250,000 median sales price remains the high for the year — as well as the highest median for the Reno-Sparks’ market in over five years. Year-over-year, July’s median sales price is up 14 percent.
Units sold in July fell from June’s high for the year. July’s 520 houses sold represents a 7.1 percent drop from June’s 560 houses sold, and a drop of 12.3 percent from the 593 houses sold in July of last year.
Despite July’s median sales price remaining unchanged, its median sold price per square foot (ppsf) rose to $140.38/sq.ft. — an increase of 3.1 percent over June’s median sold ppsf of $136.19.
July’s median days on market (DOM) came in at 62 days — adding one day to June’s median 61 DOM.
Available inventory continues to climb, but remains at a “Seller’s market” level at the lower price points. Currently, 1,365 houses are available for sale — a 10.6 percent increase from the 1,234 houses available for sale this time last month. Year-over-year, July’s inventory is up 48.4 percent.
July sales by type break out as follows:
- REO sales: 4% – down from June’s 7%
- Short sales: 8% – down from June’s 10%
- Equity sales: 86% – up from June’s 82%
July sales by price band break out as follows in the table below…
| sales price ($000’s) | units sold | cumulative % of sales |
| 0 – 99 | 4 | 0.8% |
| 100 – 199 | 125 | 24.8% |
| 200 – 299 | 210 | 65.2% |
| 300 – 399 | 94 | 83.3% |
| 400 – 499 | 33 | 89.6% |
| 500 – 599 | 21 | 93.7% |
| 600 – 699 | 12 | 96.0% |
| 700 – 799 | 3 | 96.5% |
| 800 – 899 | 6 | 97.7% |
| 900 – 999 | 3 | 98.3% |
| 1M+ | 9 | 100% |
| total | 520 |
July saw a number of high-end sales. 18 houses (or 3.5% of units sold) sold for over $800,000 — and half of those 18 sold for more than $1,00,000. With 40 $1M+ sales year-to-date 2014 is continuing 2013’s increasing trend of million-dollar home sales – See Million dollar (and above) home sales double in 2013
July’s median sold price for houses and condos combined was $235,000. This number was also unchanged from June’s median sold price of $235,000 for combined sales of houses and condos.
The table below contains the past 13 months of data…
| Month Year | # Sold | Median Sold Price | Sold Price per Sq Ft | Median DOM | # of Actives | # of Pendings |
| July 2014 | 520 | $250,000 | $140.38 | 62 | 1,365 | 1,117 |
| June 2014 | 560 | $250,000 | $136.19 | 61 | 1,234 | 1,098 |
| May 2014 | 542 | $240,000 | $133.75 | 66 | 1,076 | 1,190 |
| Apr 2014 | 534 | $230,000 | $130.37 | 65 | 945 | 1,198 |
| Mar 2014 | 482 | $227,499 | $129.72 | 64 | 837 | 1,249 |
| Feb 2014 | 388 | $233,500 | $126.42 | 90 | 864 | 1,169 |
| Jan 2014 | 353 | $220,000 | $125.32 | 87 | 817 | 1,084 |
| Dec 2013 | 492 | $231,000 | $120.80 | 76 | 828 | 953 |
| Nov 2013 | 475 | $224,900 | $126.51 | 71 | 974 | 1,171 |
| Oct 2013 | 537 | $214,750 | $125.45 | 63 | 1,052 | 1,224 |
| Sep 2013 | 513 | $224,900 | $126.53 | 70 | 1,019 | 1,305 |
| Aug 2013 | 638 | $220,000 | $124.56 | 62 | 1,028 | 1,361 |
| Jul 2013 | 593 | $215,000 | $123.25 | 64 | 920 | 1,455 |
Note: The medians table above is updated on a monthly basis. The median home price data reported covers the cities of Reno, Nevada and Sparks, Nevada [NNRMLS Area #100]. Residential data includes Site/Stick Built properties only. Data excludes Condo/Townhouse, Manufactured/Modular and Shared Ownership properties. Data courtesy of the Northern Nevada Regional MLS – August 2014. Note: This information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
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