Cowlitz News and Real Estate

Kelso Washington Real Estate Market Report for 2011.

The Kelso Washington real estate market is slowly showing signs of improvement, home sales were up, days on market is shorter, the foreclosure market has slowed down and available inventory keeps on shrinking. In my opinion this is good sign for home seller and the real estate market.

Kelso Washington home sales were slighly up form the previous year with 192 homes sold in 2011 compare to 160 in 2010. At the end of the year inventory was the lowest in over two years with only 125 homes on the market.

The graphics below will show market trends over the last 15 months.

Number home homes for sale, pended and sold in Kelso.

Kelso average home prices

Kelso Average day on market and percent difference of asking and sold price.

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Longview Washington Real Estate Market Report for 2011.

Even though in the County sales were up in  2011 From the year before, the Longview Washington real  estate sales were slightly down compare to the previous year, 333 single family homes were sold in 2011 compare to 341 in 2010. And the inventory keeps shrinking, see graph below, at the end of the year there were only 210 homes on the market, the lowest inventory in a long time.

Some encouraging changes I notice from last year are; one, in 2011 homes were selling on an average of 97% of asking price compare to 93% in 2010, two, foreclosure inventory is down about 38% form the beginning of the year and three, dates on market is also down from the previous year, all positive signes in my opinion.

See the graphs below to for more information about average price, days on  market, average price and months of inventory.

Number of homes for sale, pending and sold in Longview

Average price per sq. ft. in Longview

Average price of active and sold listings

 

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Cowlitz County Real Estate Market Report for 2011

The Cowlitz County real estate market had its ups and downs through out the year but overall home sales were up 7 percent form the year before, 737 single family homes were sold in 20011 compared to 684 in 2010. The Cowlitz County real estate market inventory keeps shrinking, there are currently only 472 homes on the market, the lowest in over five years and way lower from the 818 available homes in this market report from July 2008.

The low inventory, in my opinion, is a good sign that the real estate market soon will start turning on a positive direction. Another positive sign we are seeing here in Cowlitz County is the reduction number of foreclosed listings coming on the market.

See the graphs below to get better understanding of average price per sq. ft., days on market, average price and months of inventory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Average price per sq. ft.

Difference percent from original and sold price

Months of inventory

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