I don’t really have much trust in the Tucson MLS Statistics report these days. I wish I did/could, but I don’t. There are too many inconsistencies. The biggest one is the Pending Sales that keep coming up month after month. In one area of the report they are 1515 now being called “Total Under Contract” which might be the reason for the inconsistency. But there has been nothing published to my knowledge that explains this change in reporting.
Pending Sales vs Total Under Contract
Pending sales were established as “All sales that get the status of Pending in the month of the report. This was a change from the past when any sale with a status of Pending was reported in the pending sales. Some contracts can remain pending for 6 month or more. This would in a sense “skew” the statistics. Thus the change in reporting of the Pending Sales.
Now we have Total Under Contract appearing in the reports. For September that number is 1515. When we turn to the detailed summary page where we can add up the columns of what was reported in the past we have Total Contingent 95, Total Capa 18, Total Pending 39. This adds up to 142. Not very many properties under contract. This is a huge decline from the reporting of just three months ago. This used to be the formula for Pending Sales.
There have been many changes in the personnel at the Tucson Association of Realtors (TAR) I can’t help but think some things have dropped through the procedural cracks during all the transitioning of staff. I know the change from the previous MLS system to FlexMLS was difficult. At that time the Tucson MLS Statistics reports started to show cracks. A complete new design was probably in order to fit the new system of data storage and retrieval.
Now we are left with a system of reporting that leaves me with more questions than answers each month.
