The median home sales price in Reno and Sparks, Nevada dropped to $307,000 for October — representing a 0.9 percent decrease from September’s median of $310,000.
Year-over-year October’s median sales price is up 9.7 percent over October 2015’s median of $279,950.
October’s median sold price per square foot (ppsf) increased slightly to $175.57/sq.ft. — a 0.1 percent increase over September’s $175.29/sq.ft. Year-over-year the median sold ppsf is up 10.4 percent.
The number of houses sold in October dropped substantially — to 490 units sold. That total represents a 22.8 percent decrease from the 635 houses sold in September. Sales typically drop as the market enters the fall and winter seasons. That being said, year-over-year, October’s total houses sold is off 9.3 percent from the 540 houses sold in October 2015.
October’s median days on market (DOM) decreased by two days — coming in at 72 DOM.
October’s median days to contract (DTC) metric [the number of days that a property was listed on the MLS before going into contract (e.g. pending)] came in at 6 days — an decrease of 1 day over the 7 days observed in September.
Available inventory fell for the month. Currently 1,306 houses are listed and available for sale. Compare that number to the 1,451 houses available this time last month.
Pending home sales, on the other hand, increased. Currently, there are 956 houses pending sale. Compare that September’s 928 pending sales this time last month — a 3 percent increase.
October sales by type break out as follows:
- REO sales: 2% – unchanged from September’s 2%
- Short sales: 1% – down from September’s 3%
- Equity sales: 96% – up from September’s 92%
October sales by price band break out as follows in the table below…
| sales price ($000’s) | units sold | cumulative % of sales |
| 0 – 99 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 100 – 199 | 34 | 6.9% |
| 200 – 299 | 193 | 46.3% |
| 300 – 399 | 162 | 79.4% |
| 400 – 499 | 49 | 89.41% |
| 500 – 599 | 23 | 94.1% |
| 600 – 699 | 9 | 95.9% |
| 700 – 799 | 10 | 98.0% |
| 800 – 899 | 3 | 98.6% |
| 900 – 999 | 1 | 98.8% |
| 1M+ | 6 | 100% |
| total | 490 |
October’s median sold price for houses and condos combined was $290,000 — a 1.7 percent one-month decrease from September’s median sold price of $295,000 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 |
| Oct 2016 | 490 | $307,000 | $175.57 | 72 | 1,306 | 956 |
| Sep 2016 | 635 | $310,000 | $175.29 | 74 | 1,451 | 928 |
| Aug 2016 | 595 | $310,000 | $172.41 | 67 | 1,440 | 1,031 |
| Jul 2016 | 600 | $318,000 | $173.38 | 65 | 1,434 | 1,036 |
| Jun 2016 | 660 | $312,650 | $175.49 | 61 | 1,299 | 1,072 |
| May 2016 | 600 | $310,000 | $172.09 | 58 | 1,156 | 1,228 |
| Apr 2016 | 571 | $295,000 | $167.86 | 58 | 840 | 1,142 |
| Mar 2016 | 578 | $295,000 | $165.09 | 64 | 833 | 1,037 |
| Feb 2016 | 369 | $290,000 | $162.77 | 85 | 765 | 1,010 |
| Jan 2016 | 387 | $278,000 | $153.10 | 87 | 762 | 853 |
| Dec 2015 | 501 | $290,000 | $157.20 | 76 | 819 | 749 |
| Nov 2015 | 423 | $292,000 | $158.97 | 72 | 925 | 890 |
| Oct 2015 | 540 | $279,950 | $158.99 | 65 | 1,105 | 886 |
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 – November 9, 2016. Note: This information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
Related post: September median sales price, units sold, DOM, DTC and inventory
Woodrow Stool
Question – how can median days on market (DOM) be 72 if median days to contract (DTC) are only 6? Shouldn’t those two be pretty close to the same? If a property is under contract it is off the market, correct? These two numbers seem to be conflicting, or perhaps (likely) I don’t fully understand the difference between the two. Many thanks for any explanation and thanks again for posting this monthly data.
Guy Johnson
Great question. The days on market (DOM) metric, as used by our MLS, refers to the number of days from first being listed to the date the sale closes — therefore under contract days are included in this number. The days to contract number does not include does pending (or under contract). Thank you for your question and thank you for reading the blog.
Woodrow Stool
So just to follow up – can you describe a typical situation where a home goes under contract six days after listing but stays on the market for 72 days? Why would the house be go under contract so quickly yet still technically be on the market for another 66 days?
Guy Johnson
Another great question. 66 days pending is not typical. To determine the median days pending (or days in escrow), we would have to subtract the days to contract (DTC) from the days on market (DOM) from every sale that has occurred for the month. We would then take the median of that data set of differences to arrive at the median days pending. I suspect we’d see a number closer to 45 days currently, and not the 66 days found above by simply subtracting the median DTC from the median DOM.
Coincidentally, I performed this very analysis in a blog post earlier this year. Take a look at Median escrow period increases by three weeks — Days to contract now less than a week for that blog.
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