Is there strength in numbers? The market thinks so! It appears the Tahoe/Truckee real estate market is alive and well. Solid sales volume in 3 of the 4 regional areas pushed sales numbers above last October. Considering many areas of the country are experience, an overall decrease in sales volume, this is great news for the Tahoe /Truckee market. Let’s look at the breakdown by region Continue Reading
Mixed Signals Continue in the Tahoe/Truckee Market
Still confused, so is the market. September sales are strong but mixed. Over all, September 2019 sales finished more than 10% above September 2018. Looking further back sales were 15% below September 2017, which was an exceptionally strong sales month. Let’s look at the breakdown by region - Tahoe Basin declined just over 5% - Squaw / Alpine increased Continue Reading
Recession or No Recession?
Which way are housing sales going, up or down? The Tahoe/Truckee housing market isn’t sure, let’s looks at some of the numbers. Comparing sales volume from August 2018 to 2019 an overall decline of 5% can be equated. Upon breaking this down into regional sales: - Tahoe-Basin dropped - Squaw / Alpine increased nearly 90%, - Continue Reading
What Did the Market do in July?
It would appear a little bit of everything. For the entire area we saw a small decline of less than 10% in sales volume. Tahoe Donner had the biggest decline going from 36 sales a year ago to 23 this year, or 36%. The decline was almost exclusively in the single-family home market. The Tahoe basin saw a subtle 10% decline going from 44 sales last year to 40 this year. A modest Continue Reading
Cold Soggy May Takes its Toll
It isn’t just the real estate market that got beat up a little by the weather, it seems many folks around town struggled with it too. I think the market was very fortunate that we had a strong April. That helped carry over in to May sales which were down a little from the previous year but down 10% from 2017. Some highlights and lowlights are things like Tahoe Donner managed to sell more then Continue Reading
How One Big Winter Follows Another
The winter of 2018 / 2019 is coming to an end but not without leaving some marks. The impact on sales has been following the same path we had after the record setting 2016 / 2017 winter. Though this winter was not quite as heavy it certainly had its moments. These heavy winters reduce the number of properties that come on the market which in turn, reduces sales volume. We are slowly coming Continue Reading
Big Snow Makes For Fewer Sales
Record snowfall in February brought sales numbers in almost identical to snowmageddon February 2017. Squaw Valley reported just over 300 inches or 25 feet of snow in February this year eclipsing their biggest single month snowfall record which was January 2017. You can probably imagine the challenges of selling property with snow piled everywhere, roads that are nearly impassable at times Continue Reading
January is Better Than Expected
January total sale numbers came in only marginally lower then last year. That is very good news when you consider the stock market was in turmoil, the government shut down was well under way and interest rates were near recent highs. Final sale volume numbers were down by a just over 10%, dropping from 83 last year to 74 this year. The decline was almost exclusively in the greater Truckee market Continue Reading
Our Region is Following National and State Trends
Sales volume is down across North Tahoe and Truckee market much like the state and the nation. Officially in combined sales of both single family and condos for the area as a whole, we are down 24%. Broken out the overall drop in condos was much deeper than in single family homes. Condo sales fell nearly 40% while single family home sales came down 19%. By far, out of all the segments, Tahoe basin Continue Reading
Things to Think About While Waiting For Snow
Post elections and things are status quo on the real estate propositions 5 and 10. I am not surprised with the public not wanting change. While I did believe proposition 5 had some good potential to effect change it was not for the same reasons they were selling it on. It would have likely created more opportunity for many and created more sales annually, it was not going to generate any new Continue Reading
