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Soaring Mt. Hood Sales For Summer 2013

by Liz Warren

The glorious summer and massive influx of visitors brought higher sales this July for the Mt. Hood area. Sixteen sales for Brightwood to Government Camp were posted in the multiple listing service.

Here's a break down of what sold this past month and the actual sales are listed below.

Condo sales took off, but mostly in Government Camp with four units selling, one Shadow Hawk unit closed in Welches.

Two Timberline Rim homes closed!

Two Mt Hood National Forest cabins were sold. Current inventory is large for cabins right now.

Two golf course homes were purchased with one at the Resort at the Mountain and the other on Fairway Avenue with an acre of land and killer view.

Five waterfront properties closed this month.

July 2013 real estate sales for Mt. Hood

July 2013 Sales for Government Camp, Welches, Rhododendron

 

July Mountain Sales Take Off

by Liz Warren

No misprint below. Yes, there were sixteen sales that closed in July! It's been a busy summer. There's lots of inventory to choose from. Our incredible summer weather has visitors and tourists flocking to the mountain. Take advantage of still low interest rates and buy your mountain getaway today.

        July 2013 Mt. Hood Real Estate Sales

Summer Inventory Increases on Mt. Hood

by Liz Warren

Inventory soared with 33 new properties for the Mt. Hood market this June! Pending sales are up 83% over June's 2012 sales. And total pending sales are up about 6% from last year at this time. What a difference an upturn makes. Not a large number of sales closed though with five total.

How about some sales stats for the year?

61 total sales as of today. Pricing points are as follows:

<$200,000   35 Sales

$200,000-$300,000  14 sales

$300,000-$400,000   8 sales

>$400,000   4 sales

 

RMLS chart for June 2013

Mountain Closings Down for June 2013!

by Liz Warren

It came as a complete surprise when June 2013 sales info came out this week. Only five properties went to closing for the month according to RMLS statistics. July numbers will certainly make up for the slow down with 25 sales currently pending. The jump in interest rates slowed applications for mortgages according to lenders but I wouldn't exactly say that is reflected in our current pending sales information. We expect the surge in inventory to keep prices very affordable as many second home sellers have been waiting for an improving market.

June 2013 sales for Mt. Hood

Eleven Sales for April 2013

by Liz Warren

RMLS reported a total of nine sales for April but two more have since been added to RMLS totaling eleven sales. Three of this month's sales were foreclosures and one short sale. Foreclosures in the area are tapering off and short sales increasing. Lengthy closings are status quo for any short sale these days.

April 2013 mt. Hood Sales

April 2013 Mt. Hood Sales

April Sales on Mt. Hood for 2013

by Liz Warren

April 2013 stats are out in RMLS showing the trend of number of sales is still booming along. There's plenty of inventory to purchase with no short supply and buyers are snatching up homes and cabins. This past month saw a splurge of new inventory hitting the market increasing the number available by nearly a third. Of the nine sales which close that month the marketing time hit 282 days. Inventory that has been on the market a while is finally clearing out. May looks to be a continuation of the trends we are seeing.

 

Mt. Hood sales April 2013

March Sales in Like a Lion

by Liz Warren

Nationally we are hearing of improving markets in most metro areas. The mountain has seen an increase in number of sales again with fifteen properties closing in March! This bodes good news for 2013. The month saw four forest service cabin sales in the Mt. Hood National Forest, three homes in Timberline Rim with two of the three being forecloses. Remaining sales were spread throughout the area from Sleepy Hollow on up to Meldrum Street in Government Camp. Current pending sales sit at 23 so we expect high numbers for the final April and May too.

 

Mt. Hood sales for March 2013

Distressed Sales for Mt. Hood Area

by Liz Warren

Resent numbers for distressed properties were just released by multiple listing for the Portland Metro area graphed below. Although the numbers are shrinking and down from 35% or so from a year ago, the total sold  homes are still around 22% of the market for bank owned and short sales. The first quarter of 2013 on the mountain saw 28 sales with only three bank owned properties in the mix. Bank Owned Properties for sale on Mt. Hood.

Portland Metro distressed properties for first quarter

Market Numbers for March 2013

by Liz Warren

Wow, there was a lot of money flying around in March on the mountain. By the end of the month a total of 28 sales had closed since January 1st and 15 of those sales closed in March, more than half of the year totals. Six of those sales went pending in March and closed. All of those sales were cash and four on leased land in the Mt. Hood National Forest.

            Mt. Hood march sales for 2013

 

This is a surprise because the total market time for the homes that sold was 365 days. How could this be? Well our data base is quite small so things get a bit skewed in the numbers. One property at 25488 E CEDAR GLEN LOOP had a cumulative marketing time of 1412 days.... yes that is FOUR years on the market!

There is plenty of inventory on the market on Mt. Hood and we expect an active year.

Eight Sales for Mt. Hood Real Estate in February 2013

by Liz Warren

 

It's good news for sales on Mt. Hood with eight sales closing in the month of February and they are all over the board from full time residential to Government Camp vacation homes and leased land cabins. Buyers are flocking to Mt. Hood to pick up that perfect getaway and future retirement home! This bodes well for a huge buying and selling season for 2013. Buyers and sellers need to get going before rates begin to creep up towards the end of the year.

Mt. Hood February 2013 sales

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