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On behalf of all of us at TeamFisher, I hope that 2021 brings with it all that you’re hoping for. 

It’s my pleasure to bring you the final week in review for 2020. Thanks so much for reading.

Saskatoon real estate sales reached their lowest point since the opening weeks of 2020. Local agents reported just 34 firm sales, down from 53 last week and falling short of sales recorded during the same week last year when 43 Saskatoon homes traded hands. This was the first week in 30 in which sales failed to meet or exceed those recorded during the same period last year.

Meanwhile, 34 Saskatoon home sellers decided to get the jump on the competition and listed their properties for sale. That’s lower than last week by five, and down from the same week last year by 28.

The inventory of active MLS® listings took its biggest slide this year as 138 listings came to the end of their term without a sale to leave us with just 910 active Saskatoon real estate listings in the residential category. That number is down 126 units from the previous week’s close, and lower than 2019’s closing number by 309 properties. That is the smallest number of active listings for any week since December of 2013.

Today, the multiple listing service® is showing just 400 single-family homes as active, a drop of 71 from last week, and down from 706 at this time last year. Condo options are a bit better at 454, down from 503 last week, and roughly even with levels recorded a year ago.

Thirty days sales took a serious slide to just 248 units. With 910 Saskatoon homes for sale, our “months of inventory” measure saw another improvement, at least as far as buyers are concerned. That number grew from 3.4 months last week, to 3.7 months as this period wrapped up.

The weekly median price of a Saskatoon home grew this week to reach $317,500. The average selling price also saw some gains as it hit $340,044, thanks to a single sale that cracked the million-dollar mark.

The six-week average price took some gains to close the week at $340,367. That’s up a little more than three thousand dollars from last week, and higher than it was at this time last year by six thousand dollars.

The four-week median price moved in the opposite direction slipping four thousand dollars from last week to $329,000. That’s down $900 from the same week last year.

This week saw four sellers report a sale above their asking price. Three of the four overbids reached the five-figure range. Across the four deals, the average overbid was $7,625. Meanwhile, 30 of 34 sales went below the asking price netting those buyers an average discount of $13,887.

Here is a breakdown of what the sales to listing price ratio looked like on this week’s sales. Please note that this chart may show over list price sales, even when I have reported the number as 0. Those sales are typically new properties that spent some period of time on the market, and most likely sold and included additional improvements that were not reflected in the original list price. For example, a new home listed at $450,000 sells at a price of $490,000 after 120 days on the market may have included a basement development that was not anticipated in the listing price. We report these to you as “at list price sales”, which is likely too generous in some cases, but it’s simply not practical to obtain the full details of each sale.

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Norm Fisher

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