Delaware Home Builders in Demand in Extremely Active Real Estate Market
A sharp uptick in the price of a single family home as compared to twelve months ago and very brisk home buyer activity highlighted the 2014 second quarter home sales statistics as reported by the Sussex County Association of Realtors.
The numbers are right in line with the upward trend in the strengthening Delaware real estate market, as the country continues to emerge from a stagnant economic environment into a growth-oriented one.
Brad Riedle, 2014 SCAOR president said, “We continue to be buoyed by these strong numbers…We always try to stay cautiously optimistic when it comes to the future, but the data continues to be strong, and we look forward to a strong second half of 2014 and beyond.”
The key statistic for both buyers and sellers of course is “how much will it cost if I want to buy a house?” and “how much money can I make if I decide to sell?” According to the statistics for the second quarter of 2014, it will cost a home buyer in Sussex County 12% more to buy an average three bedroom home than it did twelve months ago. The median price of a three bedroom homes is up to $271,239.
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That’s a significant price hike brought about by a few factors—a growing confidence that the worst of the economic doldrums may be behind us, a continuation of extremely favorable interest rates, and in some ways, a release of pent up demand to realize the American dream of owning a house while the getting is still good.
When home seekers have the buying power that low interest rates provide and a still affordable inventory of homes to look at, the law of supply and demand takes over and prices tend to rise. A sense that inventory may be shrinking also brings more buyers out into the open. Open houses are busier, bids come in closer to the asking prices, sellers become less negotiable, and a healthy real estate market builds on its own success.
Reidel commented, “…what we are seeing is a market that is showing continuous and sustained growth…we’re feeling more confident with each passing quarter that we’re on a good long-term path”.
Evidence of that is $469 million in real estate sales in Sussex County in the first six months of 2014. That includes $350 million in single family homes, $87 million in condo and townhome sales, $16 million in land sales (signaling more development by Delaware home builders), $6.5 million in commercial properties, and $4 million in mobile home sales.
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Resources:
- Bloomberg Business Week, America’s Strongest Housing Markets, http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/08/0803_strongest_housing_markets/9.htm
- Delaware Online, Where House Sell, http://php.delawareonline.com/news/2014/home-sales/
