AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Median Price Posts 14.3 Percent Gain in First Quarter, Sales Post 3.5 Percent Decline, C.A.R. Reports.

PR Newswire

| May 14, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 PR Newswire Association LLC. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The median price of an existing, single-family detached home in California hit a new record during the first quarter of 2003, rising 14.3 percent to $337,780, the California Association of REALTORS(R) (C.A.R.) reported today.

Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California amounted to 573,030 for the first quarter of 2003 at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, a 3.5 percent decrease from 593,620 in the first quarter of 2002.

C.A.R.'s Unsold Inventory Index for existing, single-family detached homes for the first quarter of 2003 was 3.2 months, compared to 2.6 months for the same period a year ago. The index indicates the number of months needed to deplete the supply of homes on the market at the current sales rate.

Thirty-year fixed mortgage interest rates averaged 5.83 percent during the first quarter of 2003, down from 6.97 percent in the first quarter of 2002, according to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Adjustable mortgage interest rates averaged 3.87 percent in the first quarter of 2003, down from 5.08 percent in the first quarter of 2002.

The median number of days it took to sell a single-family home was 31 days in the first quarter of 2003, compared to 35 days for the same period a year ago.

Regional MLS sales and price information is contained in the tables that accompany this press release. Regional sales data is not adjusted to account for seasonal factors that can influence home sales. The MLS median price and sales data for detached homes is generated from a survey of more than 90 associations of REALTORS(R) throughout the state. MLS median price and sales data for condominiums is based on a survey of more than 60 associations. The median price for both detached homes and condominiums represents closed escrow sales.

In a separate report covering more localized statistics generated by C.A.R. and DataQuick Information Systems, 96.7 percent or 433 of 448 California cities and communities showed an increase in their respective median home prices during the first quarter of 2003 compared to the same period a year ago. DataQuick statistics are based on county records data rather than MLS information. DataQuick Information Systems is a subsidiary of Vancouver-based MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates.

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Analytics Application offers insight into post-sales data.(Xactly Changes the...
Magazine article from: Product News Network May 1, 2008 700+ words
...effectiveness. On-demand solution uses post-sales data to power pre-built analytics, metrics...enabling visibility into reliable post-sales data to better measure and maximize sales...of comprehensive and reliable post-sales data. Xactly Analytics is revolutionary in...
Getting Our Numbers Straight: Improving Game Sales Data.
News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 6, 2004 700+ words
...multiple and more frequent feeds of game sales data? NPD Funworld's monthly totes of the...and more competitive pricing. Game sales data is the kind of thing analysts and publishers...analysts we spoke to credit the current sales data as consistent if not always in synch...
Nielsen Mobile Adds Sprint Nextel and Boost Mobile as Mobile Entertainment...
Press release article from: Business Wire November 29, 2006 700+ words
...length over-the-air song download sales data for Nielsen Mobile's comprehensive...addition, the agreement will also include sales data from Boost Mobile, the lifestyle-based...basis through the collection of empirical sales data from ringtone retailers. About Nielsen...
StoreAlliance.com Research Report Shows Independent Retailers Value Timely...
Press release article from: Business Wire September 6, 2000 700+ words
...have their enterprise sales data available by the next...Thirty-five percent of the sample identified...Forty-eight percent of the total sample...process and receive sales data manually, while 39 percent reported internal...
Actual sales data not necessary to show market acceptance of Grain Processing...
Magazine article from: Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal Antonelli, Matthew Ezring, Bernadette McCann May 1, 2002 700+ words
...introduced evidence other than actual sales data to show that its new trimmer would have been acceptable to consumers. While sales data showing market acceptance of a non...hypothetical enterprise. Although actual sales data were not available to Hunt during trial...
Insurance Sales Data Public, Texas Supreme Court Rules.(Knight Ridder/Tribune...
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Stutz, Terrence March 7, 2000 700+ words
...arguments by the insurance industry that its sales data is confidential and should be kept from...have no right to block release of their sales data in Texas. Critics contend that the data...adopted a rule that made public all sales data filed with the state by insurance companies...
Sales Data Helps 7-Eleven Maximize Space, Selection; Inventory no longer driven...
Magazine article from: Computerworld Orenstein, David July 5, 1999 700+ words
...rolling out an inventory management/sales data system to not only make the most of its...With reports based on item-by-item sales data, managers can determine what hot merchandise...re being driven now by sales."Using sales data, 7-Eleven suggests about two dozen...
Stewart Title Offers Comparable Home Sales Data on the Internet
Press release article from: PR Newswire September 19, 1996 700+ words
...general public on its Web site. Comparable sales data on residential properties is immediately...by giving them the opportunity to view sales data on comparable homes in the areas in which...homebuyers receive a cover sheet listing sales data on as many as 30 properties located ...
Nielsen Mobile Adds Verizon Wireless as Mobile Entertainment Sales Data...
Press release article from: Business Wire September 21, 2006 700+ words
...length over-the-air music download sales data for Nielsen Mobile's comprehensive...Wireless as a direct reporter of weekly sales data to our existing pool of contributors...provides the monitoring and analysis of sales data for the mobile industry. Nielsen Mobile...
OneChannel.net Surpasses $3 Billion Milestone in Capturing Actual Sales Data to...
Press release article from: Business Wire December 1, 2000 700+ words
...billion milestone in capturing online sales data, primarily in the technology market...OneChannel.net has made reporting sales data to the manufacturers, as well as within...The ability to see current actual sales data fosters and strengthens the manufacturer...
For more facts and information, see all results

Source: HighBeam Research, Median Price Posts 14.3 Percent Gain in First Quarter, Sales Post 3.5...

©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA