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April 2011 Newsle.er Sean G reco – R ealtor®, CIPS, CDPE, CLHMS, G REEN CerBfied, T RC, R EOS DesignaBons and CerBficaBons are explained at the end of the newsle.er Buy the B each R ealty, Cell 786-‐877-‐9220, buybeach.com Gree$ngs from Warm South Florida, Please bookmark this page as it will be very helpful in analyzing actual data from the very specific Real Estate market in which I prac$ce. You will be finding yourself looking forward to comparing this month’s data with last month’s data to spot trends and decide for yourself the status of the local Real Estate market, of which I work within 24/7. Please go to st this bookmarked page on the 1 day of each month in order to get the most up to date informa$on immediately, or any$me throughout the month when you have the $me. From month to month it will contain data that will help you to analyze market condi$ons. In addi$on, it is an unobtrusive way to stay in touch with you regarding my Real Estate Consul$ng Services. The first por$on of this newsleNer is hand selected data that I track every month, in the very specific market in which I prac$ce. This data is for Miami Beach (South Beach, Mid Beach and North Beach), Fisher Island, Bal Harbour, Surfside and Bay Harbor Islands. I want to bring special a.enBon to something I have been monitoring for quite some Bme, and we have finally hit this milestone, whether the trend will conBnue remains to be seen. For the first Bme in quite some Bme, the percentage of acBvely listed condos that have sold has outpaced the percentage of acBvely listed condos that expired. I like this data point because it is taken as a percentage of current acBve inventories. I believe it is a good broad indicator of our market, since it is taken as an overall staBsBc. Too oZen, data is taken out of context, and in this market where a 1BR is listed at $1.678M and 3 blocks away a 1BR can trade at $175K, both in oceanfront buildings, context is crucial. I have included a chart below to help visualize this. Y ou will see in J une of 2010 it came close, where 16.63 percent of condos sold compared to 16.84 percent of condos expired. This month, it actually reversed, where 24.3 percent of condos sold and 23.15 percent of condos expired. A lso noteworthy is the sheer increase of acBve inventory actually selling, from a low of 4.3 percent since I started keeping track in J anuary of 2008, to this month’s nearly 1 out of 4 condos listed for sale are selling. Throughout this newsleNer are brief summaries on key issues that also have an effect on South Florida Real Estate and the economy, as well as excellent resources and references to other interes$ng material.
The below chart is data from the past 90 days for C ondominiums, ending 3/31/11. The data is taken from South East Florida’s Mul$ple Lis$ng Service (MLS) for the ci$es and townships of Miami Beach (South Beach, Mid Beach, & North Beach), Surfside, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, and Fisher Island. The paragraph below the data will explain in more detail what is included in this analysis. Please don’t hesitate to pose any ques$ons you may have, or simply give me a call or send me an email to discuss Real Estate in general. This data will help to analyze market condi$ons from month to month. CONDO D ATA As you can see, I have broken the data into price ranges, and then you can see the amount of A cBve condos for sale, how many Real Buyers C losed on a condo for sale, how many of those lis$ng agreements Expired unsold, then further calculated what percent of the Ac$ve condos for sale Expired and Sold. Then I calculated the Average Days on Market (Avg D OM), which is the amount of days it took the condos that sold to obtain a Real Buyer. Then I show the A verage Discount, which is the percentage the Listed Price was discounted to the Actual Sale Price for all Closed Sales. The last column is for Closed Sales that were newer construcBon, which I considered to be anything built a\er 1995, versus
older buildings built before 1995. I track this data for Condominiums and Single Family Homes separately due to their differences. I also track the data for the more luxurious buildings of South Beach, please feel free to email or call for that data. The next set of data below is the same informa$on for Single Family Homes. The one difference is that the last column is the A verage A ge of the homes Sold. HOME D ATA If you are worried about the pi_alls of distressed property, but s$ll consider yourself a bargain hunter looking for such, please contact me so that I may setup an automa$c short sale or foreclosure search no$fica$on for you. I have found that the best deals usually go the quickest, and to be proac$ve in your distressed property search is the best way to go about finding a bargain. Please understand that this service I provide adds significant value to the process, and only contact me if you are serious about buying and planning to be loyal. Please don’t hesitate to contact me directly for any such informa$on. HOUSING H EADLINES I N THE H ERALD: The M iami Herald 3/1/2011 – “ S. Florida home sales rise, bucking naBonal trend” Buyer’s con$nued appe$te for distressed proper$es helped push South Florida’s pending home sales upward in February, even as the na$onal housing picture sagged. Pending home sales were up 22 percent in Miami-‐Dade County in February compared to the same month last year, according to data released Monday by the Miami Associa$on of Realtors. Na$onally, pending home sales fell for the second straight month in January, slipping 2.8 percent, according to the Na$onal Associa$on of Realtors. Compared to January, pending home sales in February were up 4.5 percent in Miami-‐ Dade and up 8 percent in Broward. Monday’s report follows a sales report last week that showed South Florida home sales in January reached their highest levels since 2006. -‐Source: MAR, NAR The M iami Herald 3/5/2011 – “ For home buyers in S. Fla., cash is king” About 54 percent of home purchases in Miami-‐Dade, Broward and Palm Beach were cash buys in the final quarter of 2010. In South Florida’s real estate zenith of 2006, just 13 percent of sales were in cash. In pre-‐boom 1997, cash buys made up 31 percent of the market. Of 11 major metropolitan areas in the country studied by Zillow, South Florida had the highest percentage of cash buys in the fourth quarter of last year. “I haven’t pulled a mortgage in 6 months,” said Corcoran Group agent Anthony Pizzarelli, who specializes in downtown West Palm Beach condos. “You just have a lot of people with a lot of cash running around.” Many of those financially gi\ed consumers, however, are not South Floridians buying a homestead. Investors and interna$onal buyers are driving the cash deals, including Canadians who get loans in their own country to buy winter escapes here. Spring Hill, Tenn.-‐residents during the summer, the Jessups typically rent a place in South Florida through the fall and winter. This year, with bargain-‐basement home prices, the couple decided to buy. They shopped for about 2 weeks before gelng a $149,000 cash contract on a place. Clara Marie Jessup said they decided to pay cash because they believe a home will bring a beNer return on their money than a CD or other investment. “Any kind of interest income is so low right now, we might as well put it into a house,” she said. “If prices go down any more, they’re not likely to go down appreciably.” Ally Bank was offering 1.84 percent interest last week on a three-‐year CD. Na$onwide Bank offered 1.85 percent. Cash purchases accounted for 32 percent of January home buys na$onwide. Paul Advani, a Toronto Realtor looking to buy a place in South Florida, said he thinks he’ll get a lower price with cash. “They know the deal is done when it’s cash, there’s no wai$ng,” he said. “Cash has power, cash is king.” -‐Source: Zillow The M iami Herald 3/22/2011 – “ S. Florida home sales sBll on upswing”
In Miami-‐Dade County, 859 condos traded hands in February, up 58 percent from the previous year. Single-‐family home sales increased 21 percent year-‐over-‐year to 540. In Broward County, condo sales were up 19 percent in February to 1,357, the highest total since the real estate boom. Single-‐family home sales in Broward increased 16 percent to 909. In a surprising up$ck, prices of single-‐family homes in Broward surged 22 percent to $167,000, and condo prices were up 4 percent to $67,100. South Florida’s sales ac$vity stands in contrast to the na$onal market, where home sales fell 9.6 percent in February, according to the Na$onal Associa$on of Realtors. -‐Source: MAR, NAR The M iami Herald 3/29/2011 – “ Pending home sales rising” Pending sales of exis$ng homes and condominiums were up 18 percent in Miami-‐Dade to 11,544, according to data released Monday by the Miami Associa$on of Realtors. In Broward, the number of home sales under contract but yet to close rose 6 percent to 8,665. Pending sales have been rising for the past few months in South Florida, which has seen sales increase even as the na$onal housing market has spuNered. “Increased pending sales reflect the existence of pent-‐up demand and should result in strengthening home values as distressed housing inventory con$nues to be absorbed,” said Jack H. Levine, board chairman of the Miami Associa$on of Realtors, in a statement. Cash remains king in a market dominated by distressed proper$es: 69 percent of sales in Broward were all-‐cash deals in February. Those cash-‐based sales tend to close faster than deals that rely on financing, and do not remain in the pending stage very long. Na$onwide, pending home sales were up 2.1 percent in February, compared to January, but down 8.2 percent compared to February 2010. -‐Source: MAR, NAR With the strong fundamentals of an underlying economy poised with con6nued growth in the Interna6onal World, opportuni6es will con6nue to present themselves. Investors enjoy the safety of the United States, and Florida has a lot of posi6ve aspects with incredibly depressed prices that make this a great place to develop a real estate inves6ng business plan and reap the profits when done correctly. P lease contact me should you want to seriously discuss in more detail distressed sales of units. This market presents various unique opportuni6es that very well may never be seen again in one’s life6me. P lease let me help you take advantage of this situa6on. I have many strategic rela6onships with the decision makers regarding distressed proper6es, and the resources to carry out the objec6ve, right down to the day to day opera6ons. QUICK C LICKS: • First-‐Bme buyers prepare for best market in recent history: hNp://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/ ar$cle.cfm?id=257121 o Call me or email me to learn about Fannie M ae’s First L ook IniBaBve, for owner occupant buyers, it is by far the best opportunity for you to buy an amazing deal, have priority over cash investors, and obtain financing with as li.le as 3.5% down. Work with me as a Fannie M ae lisBng agent, to get access to the best deals as soon as they come to market, don’t pass up this opportunity, let’s work on a strategy together to get you in your own home before the end of the year! I can help… • Metrostudy: Housing shortage on the horizon?: hNp://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/ar$cle.cfm? id=257716 • 1 in 5 Canadians interested in buying U.S. property: hNp://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/ar$cle.cfm? id=257250 • Vaca$on home sales surge higher: hNp://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/ar$cle.cfm?id=257162 • Buyers ready to snatch bargains this spring: hNp://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/ar$cle.cfm? id=257166 PORT OF M IAMI G ETS $77M BOOST: Miami’s effort to deep dredge its port to accommodate mega-‐vessels got a major boost Friday when Gov. Rick ScoN said the state will contribute $77 million to the project. ScoN said he has directed the state Department of Transporta$on to change its work plan to account for the money “so that Florida can take another leap forward in interna$onal trade.” He
called dredging the port to a depth of 50 feet, “the type of infrastructure project that will pay permanent, long-‐term dividends, and provide a solid return on investment for Florida’s taxpayers.” Miami-‐Dade – and ports along the East Coast – have been pressing for money to make their ports deeper to accommodate the “post Panamax” ships that will begin moving cargo once expansion of the Panama Canal is completed in the year 2014. The new super ships are higher, wider and heavier than current container ships and need a channel at least 50 feet deep. By 2014, it’s es$mated that about two-‐thirds of container ships capacity will be post-‐Panamax, and the port argues that dredging will enable it to double cargo business by 2020. The state had already chipped in $17.5 million and the county $120 million for the project. South Florida business leaders and county officials, who have long championed the dredge, applauded the move, with Beacon Council President Frank Nero calling it “game changing”. “It will not only $e Miami more to La$n America but increasingly with Asia,” Nero said. “This gives us another asset to market worldwide.” Port officials had launched an aggressive federal lobbying effort to secure the last of the money in a congressional earmark but were thwarted when Congress began to reject such spending. They pitched to ScoN in December. The project has congressional authoriza$on and Port Director Bill Johnson said he plans to be in Washington next week for mee$ngs with the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss the project. He said the port hopes to begin dredging by summer 2012. ScoN and county officials predict the dredge would create 30,000 new jobs over the next 10 years. -‐Source: The Miami Herald 3/5/11 2010 RECORD Y EAR F OR D ADE TOURISM: Despite a s$ll-‐shaky economy, rumors of impending oil and a volcano that disrupted travel worldwide, more people visited Miami in 2010 than ever before – and dropped a record amount of cash. The number of overnight visitors to Miami-‐Dade rose 5.6 percent to 12.6 million, with 6.5 million of those domes$c and 6.1 million interna$onal, according to the Greater Miami Conven$on & Visitors Bureau. La$n America had the most interna$onal visitors, showing an 8 percent increase to more than four million. Of those, 555,000 were from Brazil, a 15 percent increase over the previous year. Though they made up slightly less than half of the pie, foreign visitors did the bulk of the spending. They shelled out $12.4 billion, while domes$c travelers spent $6.4 billion. The $18.8 billion total, another record, was a 10 percent increase over 2009 spending. William Talbert III, CEO of the Greater Miami Conven$on & Visitors Bureau, summed up the report with these words: “records and records and records.” The increases are greater than those seen by the state overall, which had 2 percent growth to 82.6 million, and neighboring Broward, which hosted 10.84 million visitors, an increase of 2.6 percent. -‐Source: The Miami Herald 3/4/11, Greater Miami Conven$on and Visitors Bureau In the course of con$nually researching and familiarizing myself with the inventory of the very localized market in which I prac$ce, along with the banking rela$onships I have cul$vated, I have been able to do a lot of the research and legwork recognizing the best poten$al values in my target markets, or in some instances in other specific buildings or loca$ons where there is excellent value for the product. Please don’t hesitate to contact me directly for any such informa$on. Many are in distressed situa$ons (foreclosures and short sales), and I am very knowledgeable of how best to nego$ate these types of scenarios in your best interest, please contact me so we can discuss important factors in more detail and how I can help you profit from these. Brazil is quickly becoming one of the fastest growing and most lucraBve economies in the world and M iami has a mutually beneficial relaBonship with this country that will only get stronger. So much so that a supplement in the Miami Herald will run monthly and this publicaBon is dedicated exclusively to business, travel and bilateral trade with Brazil. The online version can be found H ERE: LEGISLATION, P ROPERTY TAXES & I NSURANCE: As a property owner or poten$al property owner, I urge you to keep up to date on the various progress, legisla$on, and proposed legisla$on in order to help you beNer understand how these important issues affect you; please see the below link that will take you to the Florida Associa$on of Realtors Legisla$ve Center, which will help to explain the numerous moving parts concerning these issues: hNp://www.floridarealtors.org/ Legisla$veCenter/TopIni$a$ves/index.cfm
INTEREST RATES & RELATED NEWS: It is important to note that different types of loans are ‘pegged’ to different rates, so please make sure to stay in touch with your mortgage broker or banker to keep up to date on interest rates, as this can directly affect many Real Estate related decisions. In addi$on to the lowered rate when securing a mortgage to buy property, another common ques$on you will see with rates near historic lows is whether or not it is a good idea to refinance. This discussion might be a good one to have with a reputable mortgage broker or your banker and see if this would make sense financially. Or feel free to visit the following mortgage sec$on on our website, hNp://buybeach.com/ access/mort.htm . This is the website to the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy sec$on: hNp://federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/ default.htm Exchange rates play a vital role in Real Estate related decisions for foreign buyers or sellers, a good source to track currency exchange rates is: hNp://www.xe.com/ucc/ I hope this email finds you well and looking forward to comparing this month’s data with last month’s data to spot trends and decide for yourself the status of the local Real Estate market, of which I work within 24/7. You are receiving this because we have been in touch about Real Estate here in the South Florida area, most likely property at the Beach. As you read the newsleNer from month to month it will contain data that will help you to analyze market condi$ons. In addi$on, it is an unobtrusive way to stay in touch with you regarding my Real Estate Consul$ng Services. That is all for this month’s newsleNer and I welcome sugges$ons, feedback, and of course I am here if you or anyone you know is thinking of buying or selling property here in South Florida. If you wish to further discuss any of the above issues in more detail, or any other Real Estate related topics, please don’t hesitate to call or email. I would like to leave you with the 4 following quotes: “Even if you fall on your face, you're s3ll moving forward.” – Victor K iam “Effort only fully releases its reward a?er a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon H ill “An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.” – Laurence J . P eter “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick D ouglass