January’s median sales price jumped up to $303,750 for the month — an increase of 1.3 percent over December’s median of $300,000. Year-over-year, January’s median sales price is up 8.9 percent over January 2016’s median of $279,000.
January’s median sold price per square foot (ppsf) climbed to $174.83/sq.ft. — a 0.3 percent increase over December’s $174.30/sq.ft. Year-over-year, January’s median sold ppsf is up 12.1 percent.
In last month’s report I wrote, “With the sharp drop in December pendings, expect January closings to be sharply down as well.” Well, that was certainly the case. The number of houses sold in January was 358. That total represents a whopping 31.2 percent decrease from the 525 houses sold in December. Sales of homes are oftentimes the lowest this time of year, but January 2017’s sales were particularly low — coming in at 7.0 percent below January 2016’s sales.
January’s median days on market (DOM) climbed to 88 days — adding five more days to December’s median DOM of 83 days. As our market enters the spring home buying season, we should observe that DOM number begin to retract.
Available inventory continues to drop precipitously. Currently there are only 872 houses listed available for sale. That number represents a decrease of 15.5 percent from the 1,032 houses available for sale this time last month — a total that, itself, was down 14.8 percent from the month previously. That being said, January 2017’s inventory is markedly higher year-over-year — coming in at 14.4 percent above January 2016’s inventory.
Pending home sales rose sharply. Currently, there are 810 houses pending sale. Compare that number to December’s 675 pending sales this time last month and we see that pending sales are up 20 percent. With the sharp rise in January pendings, expect February sales to mover higher as well.
January sales by type break out as follows:
- REO sales: 3% – unchanged from December’s 3%
- Short sales: 1% – unchanged from December’s 1%
- Equity sales: 95% – up from December’s 94%
January sales by price band break out as follows in the table below…
| sales price ($000’s) | units sold | cumulative % of sales |
| 0 – 99 | 1 | 0.3% |
| 100 – 199 | 21 | 6.1% |
| 200 – 299 | 149 | 47.8% |
| 300 – 399 | 104 | 76.8% |
| 400 – 499 | 39 | 87.7% |
| 500 – 599 | 18 | 92.7% |
| 600 – 699 | 8 | 95.0% |
| 700 – 799 | 7 | 96.9% |
| 800 – 899 | 4 | 98.0% |
| 900 – 999 | 0 | 98.0% |
| 1M+ | 7 | 100% |
| total | 358 |
January’s median sold price for houses and condos combined was $287,500 — a 0.8 percent decrease from December’s median sold price of $289,900 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 |
| Jan 2017 | 358 | $303,750 | $174.83 | 88 | 872 | 810 |
| Dec 2016 | 525 | $300,000 | $174.30 | 83 | 1,032 | 675 |
| Nov 2016 | 537 | $310,000 | $173.93 | 76 | 1,211 | 845 |
| Oct 2016 | 514 | $310,000 | $175.57 | 73 | 1,306 | 956 |
| Sep 2016 | 632 | $310,000 | $175.02 | 74 | 1,451 | 928 |
| Aug 2016 | 596 | $310,000 | $172.45 | 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 | 385 | $279,000 | $155.94 | 87 | 762 | 853 |
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 – February 9, 2017. Note: This information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
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Twister
Things appear to be setting up for another move up in median prices. Doubts over the last few months about a continuation of our strong housing market have faded away and we are now looking at higher prices coming. Inventory has plunged recently and is similar to what it was a year ago, interest rates are near what they were a year ago nothing much has really changed as far as factors that affect our market. We are about 5% off the recent peak in median price…look for that to be broken through this year as the sellers market continues the job market gets even stronger and more people come here to live.
Guy Johnson
Thank you for your comment Twister. I, too, believe it is likely home prices in our market will increase this year.
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