A Month of Love

Welcome back to our What's Up Southeast Valley for the month of February!

Check out what the Real Estate Market is doing, our upcoming events and what The Amy Jones Group has been up to for the last month!

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Working Around the Valley!

Over the course of the past month, we have been busy! From the Grand Opening of our new office in Gilbert, helping clients find and settle into their dream homes, holding open houses and meeting new people, coaching and training agents across The Valley, growing our team, and posting our favorite LIVE.LOVE.LOCAL finds on our Facebook and Instagram pages, we are loving every second of helping YOU move forward in 2020.

📈 Market Update

💬 What the Market Says

The current situation is even more remarkable than last month.

Here are the basics - the ARMLS numbers for February 1, 2020 compared with February 1, 2019 for all areas & types:

• Active Listings (excluding UCB & CCBS): 11,974 versus 19,040 last year - down 35.1% - and down 1.4% from 12,141 last month
• Active Listings (including UCB & CCBS): 16,015 versus 22,655 last year - down 29.2% - but up 6.8% compared with 15,018 last month
• Pending Listings: 5,969 versus 5,012 last year - up 19.1% - and up 28.0% from 4,662 last month
• Under Contract Listings (including Pending, CCBS & UCB): 10,030 versus 8,627 last year - up 16.3% - and up 33.0% from 7,539 last month
• Monthly Sales: 6,403 versus 5,467 last year - up 17.1% - but down 17.8% from 7,789 last month
• Monthly Average Sales Price per Sq. Ft.: $182.20 versus $167.79 last year - up 8.6% - and up 1.3% from $179.85 last month
• Monthly Median Sales Price: $289,900 versus $262,000 last year - up 10.6% - and up 0.1% from $289,500 last month

Last month we wrote that buyers must hope for a big surge in new listings. Not only did they not get anything close to a big surge, or even a tiny up-tick, they unexpectedly got far fewer new listings than normal. The lack of supply was described as shocking at the start of 2020, so we am starting to run out of adjectives to adequately describe the current state of supply. It is almost (but not quite) unheard of to see supply drop between January 1 and February 1, but active listings without a contract are down 1.4% for the month. They are down a colossal 35% compared to a year ago.

Meanwhile demand has been picking up so that monthly sales are up 17% compared with last year while listings under contract are up 16%. Given that there are so few homes to buy, this is impressive.

Economics 101 teaches us that lower supply and higher demand is a recipe for higher prices. So far the reaction of pricing has been muted. However, you should not expect it to stay that way. The spring selling season has just started and by the time we get to June a significant upward adjustment in pricing is likely.

Mortgages are becoming easier to qualify for in many different ways, so demand is likely to increase. Yet there is no sign of more supply coming along to satisfy it. In this situation the market is likely to become both frenzied and frustrating. We certainly live in interesting times.

👉 What It Means For You

Buyers are hoping that a surge in new listings will arrive over the next 12 weeks. We hope that sellers will be tempted by the higher pricing they can achieve and start to get their homes on the market in greater numbers. If they are staying around Phoenix, they will have to pay more for their new home, so it really doesn't make sense to try and time the peak of this long running sellers market. Phoenix is currently the strongest large-city housing market in the USA and this is fueled by inter-state population movements. Retirees are a big part of that, but so are people moving here from California and other Western states for work and the lower cost of living. Demand is likely to remain healthy despite the rising prices.

👩🏻‍💼 What You Can Do

If you're looking to buy a home, Contact us today and we can help you put in action a plan that works for you and your family and help you take advantage of appreciating neighborhoods. Whether you are looking to make a move now or five years from now, it's never too early to sit down and game plan! We've got lots of options for financing and access to all of they valley's new construction inventory!

If you're looking to sell your home, we can get you an up-to-date home valuation. Despite being in a strong seller's market, cancellation rates are high from panicked and finicky buyers so you'll want to hire a team of experts who have top negotiating skills, cutting-edge marketing, and extensive market knowledge to help you get from listed to SOLD.

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None of this is possible without our amazing clients.
We'd love to help you or someone you love if we haven't already - or help you again!
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