Scottsdale Real Estate Market Update 2021

May 2021

From our Local Cromford Report…

Market Summary for the Beginning of May

Here are the basics – the ARMLS numbers for May 1, 2021 compared with May 1, 2020 for all areas & types:

Active Listings (excluding UCB & CCBS): 5,080 versus 14,051 last year – down 63.8% – but up 24.2% from 4,089 last month
Active Listings (including UCB & CCBS): 9,438 versus 17,867 last year – down 47.2% – but up 8.5% compared with 8,699 last month
Pending Listings: 7,829 versus 5,676 last year – up 37.9% – but down 1.7% from 7,964 last month
Under Contract Listings (including Pending, CCBS & UCB): 12,187 versus 9,512 last year – up 28.1% – but down 3.1% from 12,575 last month
Monthly Sales: 10,172 versus 7,174 last year – up 41.8% – but down 2.2% from 10,396 last month
Monthly Average Sales Price per Sq. Ft.: $243.50 versus $183.96 last year – up 32.41% – and up 5.1% from $231.75 last month
Monthly Median Sales Price: $373,000 versus $299,999 last year – up 24.3% – and up 4.1% from $358,250 last month

These numbers are the most interesting we have seen for a long time. They show a very hot market with supply dramatically mismatched to demand. However they also confirm a cooling trend that has been developing over the last 7 weeks. This was first reported by the Cromford® Market Index, but is now being confirmed by a number of other metrics.

active listings are UP significantly from the beginning of April, though admittedly from a very tiny number
under contract counts are DOWN for the second month in a row
sales counts are down compared with March

Markets do not get hotter indefinitely. The primary mechanism by which they cool down is through prices. In hot markets pricing goes up which causes demand to weaken, which means the supply gets a chance to recover. When prices go up, some buyers can no longer afford to buy and drop out. The faster that pricing goes up, the more buyers tend to drop out, at least in a healthy market. If this is not happening then you probably have a bubble where pure speculation has taken over and demand grows when prices rise. We are not seeing this.

12 months ago we were in the early stages of adjusting to COVID-19 so the year over year comparisons are not very meaningful. Demand dropped sharply in April 2020 only to recover quickly by June.

All changes tend to start small and then grow. The current market cooling is like that. We now have supply increasing and demand falling. This will gradually release some of the steam from the over-heating engine and the market can trend back towards normality. In a normal market prices still tend to rise, but in our current market, prices are rising at an unsustainable pace – the monthly average $/SF soared by over 5% in a single month. If the next 8 months behaved like April 2021, we would see the median sale price rise to $514,000 by the end of the year. I doubt that will happen.

Even though we have entered a cooling phase, it will probably take several quarters (if not years) to cool down to normal and prices will continue to rise at a brisk pace for quite some time.

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MLS: #6249857

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