Sacramento Real Estate Blog

Unlike areas like Antelope and Elk Grove, the Rosemont area of Sacramento (95826 and 95827) is still in a buyer’s market, with fairly high inventory and declining unit volume.  The average home sold in Rosemont in April of 2008 for $216,135, down 27.1% from last April’s average of $296,360.  The median price fell 31.2% during the same period, from $305,000 to $209,900.  Average sold price per square foot is down 26.7%, from $202.57 last April to $148.44 this April.

As we mentioned earlier, Rosemont has yet to turn the corner into a recovery.  Unit volume is down 8.1% from last year, and the expired to sold ratio has risen from 54.1% in April of 2007 to 70.6% in April of 2008.  Average days on market are also up, from 48 last year to 56 this year.  There are 9.1 months of unsold inventory in Rosemont.

67.6% — approximately two thirds — of the homes that sold in April in Rosemont were bank foreclosures.  Of the thirty-four homes that sold, only one was a short sale (2.9%), in spite of the fact that 38.8% of the homes in active inventory are short sales.