Spring Market
As we reach the Spring market and look back at the first quarter of 2021, lake area real estate sales show no signs of slowing down.
I’ve been reviewing the inventory levels
over the last few years beginning in 2016.
For comparison I am using the category of lakefront home listings.
In January of 2016, there were 700
lakefront homes on the market on average on any given day. That number increased to 753 in February of
2016 and continued to increased each month until June. In June of 2016, lakefront home inventory had
peaked for the year at 1,001 and inventory returned to 671 lakefront homes in
December.
It is typical for the inventory to ebb and
flow each year and it usually reaches its highest point in June or July.
As the market improved each year, the
overall average inventory dropped.
That’s a pretty obvious result of increased demand and no surprise.
That brings us to this year, 2021. In January of this year the average lakefront
home inventory was 208. That’s a
decrease of 12.6 percent compared to the inventory in the previous month of
December 2020. It is still “normal” for
inventory to decrease from December to January although in the past I think
that is due to people taking their property off the market as much, if not
more, than it is due to sales. I’m
speaking strictly anecdotally since I don’t have a way to definitely track
this, but I feel this inventory decrease is due to the sales.
In February 2021, when we would expect to
see an increase in average active lakefront home inventory, the market
experienced another decrease of 16.3 percent from January levels to February
levels of 174 lakefront homes.
As I wrap this up on March 30th,
the full average inventory data is not yet available for March. I can tell you that today there are just 63
lakefront homes actively available.
Something we don’t have a shortage of is
available agents. There are currently
911 members of our local Multiple Listing Systems and growing daily. You’ll have plenty of selection when it comes
to getting help finding a lake home. I’d
love to have the opportunity!
All sales data obtained from the Bagnell Dam
and Lake of the Ozarks Board of Realtors Multiple Listing System for the years
2016 through March 30, 2021.
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