Inventory Watch

March 28, 2022

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Bill says that the national inventory bottomed in the beginning of March, but locally the raging demand is picking up the additional choices. This should be a big week for closings, so we’ll see how it balances out next week, but statistically the trend of pendings is about as strong as possible (purple line above).

Let’s also note that the 30-year mortgage rate (with no points) has been over 4.0% for 30 days and the number of pendings keeps climbing.

From Zillow:

https://www.zillow.com/research/zhpe-q1-2022-inventory-returns-30878/

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The $0 – $1,500,000 Market:

Date	NSDCC Active Listings	Avg. LP/sf	Avg. DOM	# of Pendings
Jan 3, 2022	9	$832/sf	35	36
Jan 10	9	$766/sf	28	29
Jan 17	13	$773/sf	26	27
Jan 24	9	$818/sf	15	29
Jan 31	14	$752/sf	14	31
Feb 7	13	$774/sf	12	32
Feb 14	11	$826/sf	12	35
Feb 21	7	$889/sf	17	38
Feb 28	12	$888/sf	17	33
Mar 7	9	$1,017/sf	21	33
Mar 14	14	$847/sf	18	31
Mar 21	8	$912/sf	26	36
Mar 28	10	$914/sf	25	28

The $1,500,000 – $2,000,000 Market:

Date	NSDCC Active Listings	Avg. LP/sf	Avg. DOM	# of Pendings
Jan 3, 2022	8	$842/sf	52	36
Jan 10	13	$751/sf	28	29
Jan 17	16	$736/sf	33	27
Jan 24	16	$801/sf	17	27
Jan 31	15	$696/sf	14	34
Feb 7	15	$765/sf	17	34
Feb 14	10	$726/sf	19	38
Feb 21	19	$715/sf	15	39
Feb 28	9	$660/sf	12	46
Mar 7	16	$789/sf	15	46
Mar 14	17	$837/sf	8	44
Mar 21	18	$867/sf	11	43
Mar 28	14	$838/sf	15	48

The $2,000,000 – $3,000,000 Market:

Date	NSDCC Active Listings	Avg. LP/sf	Avg. DOM	# of Pendings
Jan 3, 2022	18	$1,080/sf	127	43
Jan 10	23	$1,038/sf	85	37
Jan 17	26	$1,044/sf	80	41
Jan 24	28	$1,015/sf	37	42
Jan 31	22	$949/sf	38	47
Feb 7	26	$919/sf	29	42
Feb 14	22	$997/sf	37	49
Feb 21	21	$966/sf	33	54
Feb 28	26	$905/sf	32	57
Mar 7	29	$922/sf	28	57
Mar 14	20	$852/sf	26	58
Mar 21	17	$928/sf	26	60
Mar 28	34	$927/sf	12	65

The $3,000,000 – $4,000,000 Market:

Date	NSDCC Active Listings	Avg. LP/sf	Avg. DOM	# of Pendings
Jan 3, 2022	19	$1,230/sf	90	26
Jan 10	22	$1,210/sf	76	25
Jan 17	19	$1,207/sf	86	23
Jan 24	17	$1,129/sf	92	24
Jan 31	21	$1,172/sf	70	22
Feb 7	19	$1,169/sf	67	25
Feb 14	19	$1,234/sf	65	28
Feb 21	21	$1,279/sf	69	28
Feb 28	22	$1,214/sf	64	25
Mar 7	27	$1,295/sf	60	24
Mar 14	27	$1,201/sf	65	27
Mar 21	23	$1,282/sf	69	31
Mar 28	25	$1,253/sf	67	30

The $4,000,000+ Market:

Date	NSDCC Active Listings	Avg. LP/sf	Avg. DOM	# of Pendings
Jan 3, 2022	100	$1,884/sf	128	30
Jan 10	105	$1,864/sf	113	29
Jan 17	109	$1,763/sf	110	34
Jan 24	105	$2,130/sf	114	42
Jan 31	102	$2,114/sf	118	53
Feb 7	109	$2,000/sf	108	50
Feb 14	108	$2,005/sf	109	47
Feb 21	113	$2,008/sf	103	43
Feb 28	111	$1,991/sf	101	47
Mar 7	115	$1,904/sf	91	39
Mar 14	121	$1,893/sf	95	43
Mar 21	116	$1,905/sf	97	44
Mar 28	104	$1,966/sf	97	59

NSDCC Weekly New Listings and New Pendings

Week	New Listings	New Pendings	Total Actives	Total Pendings
Jan 3, 2022	17	14	152	164
Jan 10	39	18	167	142
Jan 17	34	29	179	145
Jan 24	41	40	173	157
Jan 31	43	40	173	182
Feb 7	43	38	179	179
Feb 14	44	49	168	193
Feb 21	51	38	180	197
Feb 28	39	39	179	205
Mar 7	54	37	191	195
Mar 14	48	51	195	196
Mar 21	39	46	178	207
Mar 28	53	50	185	224

3 Comments

Jim the Realtor on March 28, 2022 at 12:34 pm

Of the closed detached-home sales between La Jolla and Carlsbad since 1/1/2022, there were 166 buyers of 468 that paid cash, or 35%.

Median prices, cash:

MLP: $2,850,000
MSP: $2,940,000 (103%)

Median prices, financed:

MLP: $2,050,000
MSP: $2,129,000 (104%)
Anonymous on March 28, 2022 at 5:06 pm

Many of these buyers are getting margin loans secured by their brokerage accounts so that it is a cash sale. Some of them are then getting mortgages at a later time to pay off the line or are leaving the balance on their line. Others just have cash laying around to the tune of $2 million. Must be nice.
Jim the Realtor on March 29, 2022 at 6:18 am

And there were those who got their PPP loans and poured them into real estate.

I spoke with one banker recently who said the boss approved every loan – anyone who wanted one, got it.