This post will be updated weekly on Tuesdays. All numbers are based off the WFRMLS and are deemed accurate but not guaranteed. We can learn so much about Utah’s market by analyzing these numbers. I hope you find them helpful because they aren’t easy to publish every week. Enjoy! -Clay
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# of active listings | # of active Bank/Short Sales | % of Total Listings as Bank/Short Sale | # of New listings in last month | # of Under Contracts in last month | # of closings in last month | # of months inventory |
| 5-Feb-08 | 7102 | 106 | 1.5% | 2803 | 874 | 653 | 11 |
| 18-Feb-08 | 5916 | 116 | 2.0% | 1838 | 729 | 432 | 14 |
| 25-Feb-08 | 5906 | 257 | 4.4% | 1712 | 719 | 419 | 14 |
| 3-Mar-08 | 5848 | 270 | 4.6% | 1731 | 745 | 442 | 13 |
| 10-Mar-08 | 5922 | 278 | 4.7% | 1743 | 785 | 508 | 12 |
| 17-Mar-08 | 6039 | 276 | 4.6% | 1895 | 822 | 571 | 11 |
| 24-Mar-08 | 7340 | 722 | 9.8% | 2568 | 1061 | 852 | 9 |
| 31-Mar-08 | 7452 | 756 | 10.1% | 2316 | 971 | 724 | 10 |
| 7-Apr-08 | 7519 | 794 | 10.6% | 2322 | 983 | 794 | 9 |
| 14-Apr-08 | 7573 | 793 | 10.5% | 2292 | 1087 | 812 | 9 |
| 21-Apr-08 | 7716 | 820 | 10.6% | 2271 | 1077 | 791 | 10 |
| 28-Apr-08 | 7771 | 849 | 10.9% | 2273 | 1094 | 710 | 11 |
| 5-May-08 | 7851 | 843 | 10.7% | 2221 | 1025 | 786 | 10 |
| 12-May-08 | 8016 | 907 | 11.3% | 2378 | 1016 | 839 | 10 |
| 19-May-08 | 8131 | 920 | 11.3% | 2336 | 1052 | 827 | 10 |
| 27-May-08 | 8268 | 947 | 11.5% | 2299 | 1007 | 818 | 10 |
| 2-Jun-08 | 8184 | 941 | 11.5% | 2194 | 1005 | 799 | 10 |
| 9-Jun-08 | 8178 | 950 | 11.6% | 2087 | 1018 | 869 | 9 |
| 17-Jun-08 | 8366 | 951 | 11.4% | 2278 | 1051 | 963 | 9 |
| 23-Jun-08 | 8378 | 973 | 11.6% | 2230 | 1021 | 889 | 9 |
| 30-Jun-08 | 8453 | 1014 | 12.0% | 2228 | 932 | 846 | 10 |
| 8-Jul-08 | 8506 | 1043 | 12.3% | 2263 | 889 | 945 | 9 |
| 14-Jul-08 | 8548 | 975 | 11.4% | 2194 | 915 | 888 | 10 |
| 21-Jul-08 | 8639 | 986 | 11.4% | 2219 | 947 | 897 | 10 |
| 28-Jul-08 | 8653 | 999 | 11.5% | 2130 | 925 | 752 | 12 |
| 4-Aug-08 | 8637 | 941 | 10.9% | 2143 | 831 | 761 | 11 |
| 11-Aug-08 | 8585 | 945 | 11.0% | 2150 | 892 | 806 | 11 |
| 18-Aug-08 | 8653 | 908 | 10.5% | 2123 | 911 | 804 | 11 |
| 25-Aug-08 | 8657 | 1205 | 13.9% | 2133 | 929 | 791 | 11 |
| 2-Sep-08 | 8604 | 1196 | 13.9% | 2168 | 901 | 869 | 10 |
| 9-Sep-08 | 8536 | 1153 | 13.5% | 2082 | 874 | 884 | 10 |
| 15-Sep-08 | 8481 | 1168 | 13.8% | 2109 | 946 | 889 | 10 |
| 22-Sep-08 | 8538 | 1181 | 13.8% | 2216 | 936 | 868 | 10 |
| 29-Sep-08 | 8506 | 1147 | 13.5% | 2158 | 848 | 761 | 11 |
| 6-Oct-08 | 8473 | 1154 | 13.6% | 2200 | 755 | 883 | 10 |
| 13-Oct-08 | 8466 | 1161 | 13.7% | 2103 | 694 | 859 | 10 |
| 21-Oct-08 | 8508 | 1122 | 13.2% | 1955 | 665 | 848 | 10 |
| 27-Oct-08 | 8451 | 1135 | 13.4% | 1801 | 630 | 718 | 12 |
| 27-Oct-08 | 8451 | 1135 | 13.4% | 1801 | 630 | 718 | 12 |
| 3-Nov-08 | 8297 | 1132 | 13.6% | 1723 | 586 | 584 | 14 |
| 10-Nov-08 | 8279 | 1089 | 13.2% | 1727 | 576 | 581 | 14 |
| 17-Nov-08 | 8237 | 1120 | 13.6% | 1736 | 593 | 554 | 15 |
| 25-Nov-08 | 8215 | 1121 | 13.6% | 1797 | 636 | 567 | 14 |
| 1-Dec-08 | 8010 | 1125 | 14.0% | 1596 | 583 | 492 | 16 |
| 8-Dec-08 | 7944 | 1120 | 14.1% | 1531 | 572 | 519 | 15 |
| 15-Dec-08 | 7914 | 1122 | 14.2% | 1548 | 577 | 564 | 14 |
On August 25th, all properties that were distressed were added to the foreclosed and bank owned properties. As a result, you’ll notice a sharp increase in Salt Lake County from 10.5% the previous week, to 13.9% this week.






2 Comments
May 26, 2008 at 10:17 am
Great post !
Generally it is very intresting kind of investment, but I think that real estate is loosing it’s price too much.
I own a site with prices for Moscow real estate listings and from the begining of this year it wasn’t grew….
Anyway american real estate is more stabil in this case.
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