Tucson Real Estate Absorption Rates June 2007

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Absorption Rates for May and June 2007
Tucson Real Estate Market

Area

June Listed

June
Sold

June
AR

May Listed

May
Sold

May
AR

Sold YTD

               
N 678 128 5.29 820 115 7.13 642
NE 406 59 6.88 462 66 7.00 363
NW 2343 310 7.55 2617 323 8.10 1779
XNW 104 15 6.93 113 13 8.69 88
C 1145 202 5.66 1349 220 6.13 1156
E 476 107 4.44 553 97 5.70 521
S 491 73 6.72 561 111 5.05 521
SE 772 116 6.65 890 134 6.64 697
SW 704 46 15.30 736 67 10.98 399
XSW 309 28 11.03 315 23 13.69 178
XS 664 70 9.48 695 74 9.39 402
W 503 63 7.98 533 59 9.03 375
XW 63 8 7.87 69 11 6.27 50
  8,665 1,226 7.07 9,721 1313 7.40  

This is just the third month we have been reporting absorption rates for the Tucson Real Estate Market. Here once again is how they are figured.

Absorption rates are calculated by taking the number of Active Listings on the market in a given area. Dividing it by the number of homes sold in that area to determine the number of month it would take to sell existing inventory at this rate.

Example:

  • 100 Active Listings
  • 10 Homes Sold
  • 10.00 months inventory

By reporting absorption rates it take into account two important factors that aren’t accounted for in other methods such as Days on Market, or Year over Year reporting of the number of listings, or total units sold. The two factor are:

  1. More homes are being built all the time.
  2. More people are moving into the community all the time.

XS, SW, S, SE, XW, XSW decreased absorption

The biggest change was in the where the month increased from 10.98 to 15.30 almost a 5 month increase in that area. The others were less significant to almost no change at all.

N, NE, NW, XNW, C, E, W Increase in absorption

The biggest movement came from the North were the months of inventory went from 7.13 to 5.29. This puts the North along with the East at 4.44 months inventory pretty much at a normal market level. Buyers in these areas should pay attention to these absorption rates as should sellers. These two areas of Tucson do not have an abundance of inventory.

Next months absorption rates should show even more improvement based on the high number of pending contracts reported in the month of June. There were 1191 pending contracts going into June coupled with the smaller number of active listings which helped some of these area to improve. In June there were 2053 pending contracts 862 more than than May.  Unless there is a sudden increase in the number of new listings we should see absorption rates higher than this and even more areas of the city dropping to normal levels of inventory.

Overall there was almost no change in the absorption rate for the Tucson area as a whole due to some areas having rather large increases and most remaining almost level.

It was a good month for the Tucson Real Estate Market in June.

By Dave Smith in Tucson Real Estate Market

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