April Review:
Real Estate trends on the Cape largely held steady in April with increases in median price, days on market, and inventory, while decreases continued in closed sales, pending sales, new listings, and percent of original price received. The increasing median sales price trend is bucking the national trend which has seen prices [...]
March Review:
According to the National Association of Realtors, sales are increasing across the country as the spring market heats up. However limited inventory continues to be a significant factor in the market. Is the Cape any different? Let's take a [...]
February Review:
Well, it's been an interesting week. Let's take a look at how changes in the larger economy and continuing market trends are shaping the upcoming Spring real estate season on Cape [...]
January Review:
The Cape Cod housing market showed some interesting changes compared to January 2022 as well as compared to the past few months. We have been monitoring a few metrics in particular and they [...]
The Cape Cod Real Estate market closed out 2022 continuing the trend of higher prices and lower inventory that has played out over the last decade. In fact, we closed 2022 with the lowest number of homes for sale (~580) and the highest prices (~$639,000) ever for the Cape market. For comparison, the last market peak in 2006-2008 saw ~5,700 [...]
Cape Cod vacation rentals continued to be very attractive to vacationers in 2022. The trend of early booking continued with 66% of all booking being completed by the end of March. 2023 seems on pace to be more similar to 2022 than 2021 in this regard, see the chart at right. In addition we [...]
Happy New Year!
December Review:
December closed out 2022 with few surprises in the Cape Cod Real Estate Market. Here are a few relevant points.
Percent of Original Price is on the decline. For context, this metric is the first asking price at which a seller markets their home and it has been declining since May. This indicates that [...]
October and November Review:
The end of the year is shaping up to be much as we expected. Inventory remains tight as both sellers and and buyers concentrate on the holidays more than selling or purchasing homes. As a result, we have been seeing inventory dwindle, yet we are also now seeing some other interesting trends [...]
September Review:
The Cape Cod real estate market continues the trend of low inventory, high prices, and favoring sellers. While inventory is up from the low last winter, it is still on par with 2021, meaning we haven't seriously started to improve this aspect of the market by increasing the number of homes for sale. Additionally, new [...]
August Review:
The Cape Cod real estate market remains low on inventory and high on confusion. We have been inundated these last weeks with requests for a quick look into our crystal ball and an idea about when the top, or bottom, of the market will be. Unfortunately our crystal ball only reliably predicts the next day of the week. The [...]