In our Sacramento Real Estate Market Update for January, Part I, I began rounding up the usual statistical suspects, but I decided to leave some of them to a future post, since I wanted to spend some time in part one having a discussion about the recent upsurge in demand.

Left out of part one was a discussion of where we are with respect to foreclosures and short sales. In January of 2007, foreclosures and short sales collectively made up only 7.3% of all sales. Foreclosures accounted for 4.6% of all sales, while short sales accounted for 2.7% of all sales. That’s about one home in every thirteen.

In January of 2008, in contrast, foreclosures and short sales accounted for 67%, or just over two out of every three sold homes. Of these, the vast majority are foreclosures, which accounted for 60.5% of the total sales in January, even though they only make up 27.5% of the current active inventory. Short sales make up even more of the active inventory at 32.1%, but in January only 6.5% of closed transactions were short sales.

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