We will discuss the latest Los Angeles housing market prices and trends. Home sales dropped over the past couple of months but prices remained high. In June, we saw the first rebound in home sales. In Metro Los Angeles, the jump in sales was 48%. The home prices rose $18,000 or 11.6% to a new level of $553,000. All the six counties of southern California saw an increase in sales as compared to May. July followed the trend.

In August 2020, the six-county region’s median price reached $640,000 in August 2020, up 12.9% from a year earlier. In Los Angeles County, existing single-family home sales dropped by 3.9% from July and fell by 5.2% from August 2019. The median price rose by 7.9% from a year earlier to $677,260. Orange County sales the biggest jump in sales (13.7%) from a year earlier. The median price rose by 14.8% from a year earlier to $930,000.

The Metro Los Angeles housing market posted a year-over-year increase of 4.4% in sales. Compared to July, sales decreased by 1.7%. The median home price of the LA metropolitan region rose to $615,000, up 12.8% from last year. Compared to July, the median price increased by 4.2%. The sales figures are still lagging if we compare them to last year. The rise in home prices and sales have shifted the market conditions to a balanced one. The inventory still remains tight. The Unsold Inventory in Los Angeles Metro Area is 2.3 months.

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Home prices are rising across the Southern California housing market despite the pandemic. San Diego area is also a strong seller’s real estate market. For sellers, now is the opportune time to put their San Diego home up for sale. Inventory is low, prices are rising, and pent-up demand alongside low mortgage rates has the market flooded with homebuyers. The pricing of homes is trending higher and is more attractive for sellers in the current phase. The shortage of supply and an increase in the demand for housing will push the prices higher in the San Diego housing market.

In August 2020, sales of single-family homes increased by 10.2% y-o-y, affirming that there is a strong demand among homebuyers in the area. Pending sales have also increased over the last 3 months in San Diego County. Home prices across the San Diego metro area are rising steadily in 2020. Due to the pandemic, it was expected that the home prices would remain flat or drop a bit in the coming months to favor buyers. That was a much-awaited condition for homebuyers who cannot afford a home in the median price. But that's not the case.

The median sold price of single-family homes increased by a whopping 12.7% year-over-year to $650,000. Earlier in July, the median price had increased by 10.6%. The San Diego home prices have increased by 6% from June to July of 2020. According to the latest San Diego real estate market update for August 2020, inventory of single-family homes has dropped 51.2%. That is one reason we see a drop of 2.2% in sales as compared to the previous month (July). There is a severe shortage of available properties for sale in the San Diego real estate market.

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The Dallas housing market has recovered from the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. The real estate sales showed signs of recovery in July. The number of homes sold within Dallas County has shown a double-digit increase of 20.7% as compared to last year. The median price also increased by 15.3% to $282,500. There's about a 2.7-months supply of homes for sale in Dallas County, which is well below what’s considered to be a balanced real estate market. From this standpoint, the Dallas real estate market still favors sellers over buyers.

The Metro Dallas houisng market also faces a shortage of available homes with just 2.5 months of supply. The demand and sales have been climbing at a feverish pace in the Dallas real estate market for more than two years now. The market started cooling off in the last quarter of 2019 but it is beginning to heat up now. The latest housing data by Realtor.com shows that in August 2020 the Dallas housing market was a seller’s market, which means there are roughly more buyers than there are active homes for sale.

The median list price of homes on their platform was $400K in August 2020, flat year-over-year. The median listing price per square foot was $214. On average, homes in Dallas, TX sell after 58 days on the market. The trend for median days on market in Dallas, TX has gone down since last month, and slightly down since last year.

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