Summit County Year End 2013 Market Analysis

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Written by: Land Title Guarantee Company

December and Year End 2013 Highlights:

Market Analysis by Area for December: Gross volume was weaker than last December 2012 at $69,685,806 and only 132 transactions. However the averages were all up from last month with the transaction price for all 18 reported areas at $534,666, average residential price was $530,510 and the median residential price was $436,000. The average residential PPSF was $302.
Year to Date by Area ( 12 months): There have been 1908 real estate transactions in 2013, and $888,858,406 in gross volume. The average transaction price for all recorded transactions in 2013: $471,164- Average residential price : $492,621-Median residential price : $380,000 and Average residential PPSF $300.
Market Snapshot for 2013: Values are as follows: Single Family -2%, Multi- Family -2% and Vacant Land +5% for the Average, and Median are similar. In summary, Summit’s residential prices are fairly flat to 2012.
Market Analysis % Change showing years 2004-2013: December monetary volume ($69,685,806) was down 20% from December 2012. Transactions (132) were down 29% from December 2012. Overall, for 2013, Summit County pulled ahead by 15% monetary ($888,858,406) and ahead 17% with transactions (1908) from 2012. 2013 had the most transactions since 2007 and monetary volume since 2008.
Residential Market Sales by Price Point : Residential volume in December had 113 transactions with $59,947,655 gross volume. There were 11 properties that sold for $1M and above in December. The most active price points in December continue to be between $200K -$300K. December had 45 Single family, 68 Multi-family and 6 vacant land transactions. The 2013 year shows 569 Single family, 994 Mulit-Family and 118 Vacant Land transactions.
2013 Average Price History: Average residential pricing is reasonably strong for all three sectors for the full 2013 year- Single family is $751,240, Multi- family is $344,578 and Vacant Land is $324,137. This graph ( page 7) is a great piece to show your clients that our market has held it’s value over all these years.
Historical Cost Breakdown 2013 : There were 1563 residential transactions in 2013 and $769,965,955 gross volume with 122 properties $1M and over. In 2012, there were 1314 transactions and $673,545,600 gross volume, 106 properties at $1M and over and in 2011, there were 1176 transactions with $598,530,900 gross volume, 101 properties at $1M and over.
Top Lender Graph and 2013 Lender Highlights: There were 303 loans in December, 61% (81) loans were related to sales and 39% of the sales were cash at closing. There were 143 REFI’s and 79 loans related to Timeshares. The 2013 year indicated that 39% of all the real estate sales transactions were cash on average. There were a total of 2653 Refis in 2013, 3136 Timeshare loans and 1171 actual loans related to sales transactions.
Market Highlights: Please see page 10 of the Market Analysis-View the higher priced purchases in December and the bank sales (2) from December 2013.
Bank Sales and Foreclosures: There were a total of 22 Foreclosure actions in December 2013, compared to 24 in December 2012. This year’s actions were mostly for timeshares ( 86). 2013 indicated 92 Public Trustee’s Deeds compared to 165 in 2012. Foreclosures are significantly down from the past 3 years.
Land Title Purchaser Highlights ( Page 15): There were 13 higher end sales in December- you can see the details on this report. In 2013, the majority of our second homeowners for real estate transactions continue to be the Front Range demographic at 40% of our market, only 26% are local and 33% are out of state buyers YTD.