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Inventory of distress sales trending down

March 18th, 2009 Categories: Foreclosures

In January I provided a snapshot of distress sales in Montgomery County.  With a significant increase in contract volume for entry level homes, I hoped to see reductions in the inventory of distress sales.  Two months later, the data strongly suggests that we may be through the worst of foreclosures from the sub-prime mortgage melt-down.

Here’s a snapshot of the number of pre-foreclosures (short sales) and bank-owned properties by area:

On it’s own, this snapshot doesn’t tell us how sales are trending.  Here’s an overview for Montgomery County for these two periods:

• Mid January:  4,706 listings – 1,234 distress sales = 26.2% Total
• Mid March:     4,647 listings – 1,096 distress sales = 23.6% Total

Let’s compare the number of distress sales in January and March:

	Area	Mid Jan	Mid March
	Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Kensington Clarksburg, Damascus Gaithersburg, Derwood, Mont. Village Germantown, Boyds North Potomac Olney, Ashton, Brinklow, Sandy Spring Poolesville, Dickerson, Barnesville Potomac Rockville, North Bethesda Silver Spring, Burtsonsville, Takoma Park	21 87 306 156 51 17 4 12 102 478	19 (-10%) 74 (-15%) 253 (-17%) 132 (-15%) 42 (-18%) 19 (+12%) 3 (-25%) 11 (-8%) 99 (-3%) 444 (-7%)

These trends are very encouraging for our real estate market.  Our entire real estate market stabilizes as distress sales are worked out of housing inventory.  As the the spring real estate market gets underway, we’ll revisit these stats to see if this positive trend continues.

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Posted by Bruce Lemieux

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