West Portland Statistics Review: October 2013

Overall the West Portland market is a seller's real estate market. With the Rolling Average Price increasing 7.0%, Year-to-Year Average Price is higher at 23% supply levels low at 3.1 months, demand up, marketing time down to 78 days (from 116 days ending October 2012), rolling averages reflect significantly appreciating prices, and the average home price reflects significantly appreciating prices. The current West Portland real estate market reflects SIGNIFICANT APPRECIATING PRICES.

West Portland's Average Sales Price Percent Change is 9.7% ending October 2013 compared to West Portland's Average Sales Price Percent Change ending October 2012 was 2.7% or an increase of 7.0% comparatively. *Average Sales Price Percent Change is a good conservative indicator for determining if a market is appreciating or depreciating and is the 12 month rolling average for sales price, which takes the rolling average sales price over her last twelve months (11/1/12 - 10/31/13) and compares it to the rolling average sales price of the previous 12 months (11/1/11 - 10/31/12).

West Portland, Oregon's Current Real Estate Climate when Comparing October's results this year (2013) to last year (October 2012), here is what you will find:

The average homeowner's equity increased by $ 91,600.00 or +23% of value.
Average Sales Price in October 2013 was $ 485,600.00
Average Sales Price in October of 2012 was $ 394,000.00
Number of closed sales for the month of October 2013 was 259, up by 11%.
Number of closed sales for October 2012 was 234.
The October 2013 supply of homes stands at 3.1 months, down -16%
October 2012 supply of homes was 3.7 months.

(The supply or inventory is how long it would take to sell off the current/available homes on the market at the current rate of sale.)

The time it takes on average from when a homeowner lists their home for sale to when a home has an accepted offer is 78 days. This statistic is down by -38 days (The October 2012 Total Marketing Time ended at 116 days).


Untitled Document It's important to compare these statistics to the entire Portland Metropolitan area as a whole which includes all of the city of Portland as well as the surrounding suburbs. This will help you to determine how each area is performing.

Portland Metropolitan Area Stats & Review

The current Rolling Average Price Appreciation/Depreciation percent change is currently at +12 % which is an +10% increase from +2% ending October 2012. The current year-to-year average sales price change from (October 2012- October 2013) is reflecting price increases of +10% . With the Rolling Average price increasing +10%, Average price higher at +10%, Median price higher at +11%, Supply levels low at 3.4 months, Demand down by -2.4%, and Marketing time down to 76 days (83 days ending October 2012). The Rolling averages reflect significantly appreciating prices, and the Average home price reflects appreciating prices. Therefore, overall market prices are SIGNIFICANT APPRECIATING PRICES. To establish trend you need to consider the very longer term such as rolling average sale price percent change from year to year but you also need to consider the immediate trend when compared to last year's same month and in many cases even the previous few months of data.

The 12 month rolling average sales price takes the rolling average sales price over her last twelve months (11/1/12 - 10/31/13) and compares it to the rolling average sales price of the previous 12 months (11/1/11 - 10/31/12). In this case the rolling average price over the last twelve months is $306,300 and the rolling average price over the previous 12 months was $271,500. You take the rolling average price difference and divide it by previous 12 month rolling average and you get +12%.

When comparing October's results this year 2013 to last year (October 2012) here is what you will find:

The average homeowner's equity increased by $ 29,500.00 or +10% of value.
Average Sales Price in October 2013 was $ 314,100.00
Average Sales Price in October of 2012 was $ 284,600.00
Number of closed sales for the month of October 2013 was 2189
Number of closed sales for the month of October 2012 was 2103
The closed sales ratio reflected a increase of 86 or 4.1%

The October 2013 supply in the entire Portland Metro area stands at 3.4 months down -0.4 months from last year.
The October 2012 supply in the entire Portland Metro area was 3.8 months, which was down -3 months from October 2011's 6.8 months of inventory.

The time it takes on average from when a homeowner lists their home to when a home has an accepted offer is 76 days, which is down -7 days from October 2012's total market time of 83 days.

Portland Metro Real Estate data comes from the RMLS of Portland, which is the region's local multiple listing source for real estate listings. If you would like to receive e-mailed reports simply let us know.

2013 Portland Area/Section Reports:

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For the most current Portland real estate market recap summary click here.
For the most current Portland real estate statistics summary click here.
For 2012 Portland Area/Section Reports click here.

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