For the second week in a row, Saskatoon home sales remained in triple-digit territory as local agents reported 102 firm sales to the MLS®. That number is down from last week by six, but well below sales volume recorded over the same week last year when 141 homes were sold.

Meanwhile, the number of new listings that were added to the multiple listing service® reached a new high for the year at 185. That’s up from 154 last week, and down from 227 for the same period last year.

Once again, the total number of homes offered for sale on the Saskatoon MLS® system remained below 1000. At the close of business Friday, 997 Saskatoon homes were listed as “active” on the system. That said, the inventory grew by 41 units from last week, which is the largest single-week gain since early February.  Year-over-year losses continue to grow. We are now down 215 units from where inventory stood at this time last year.

30-day sales made their first showing above the 400 mark after growing steadily for the past eight weeks. This week, that number grew from 392 to 411. Interestingly, 30-day sales in the single-family homes category slipped lower by three units from last week. Meanwhile, condo sales spiked by 16.

 “Months of inventory” remained stable across the broader market, while available supply of single-family homes grew, and the supply of condominiums continued its rapid downward spiral.

All residential - 997 active listings / 411 sales = 2.4 month supply (the same as last week).

Single-family homes - 495 listings / 235 sales = 2.1 month supply (Up 0.2 months from last week).

Condos - 440 listings / 146 sales = 3.0 month supply. (down 0.3 months from last week).

A huge week for condo sales brought the weekly median sale price and the average sale price lower to $330,500 and $350,503 respectively.

That was enough to bring the largest changes to the longer-term measures that we track in weeks. 

The six-week average price fell more than $6,000 to finish the week at $356,757. For the first time this year (and in fact the first time since late September of last year), the six-week average fell lower annually by almost $7,000.

The four-week median price fell by close to 5K from the previous week and also finished lower on a year-over-year basis. It’s lower annually for the second week in a row, this week by fifteen thousand dollars.

The number of sellers who were lucky enough to complete a sale at a price that exceeded the listing price slipped from 17 last week to 16. The average overbid grew to $11,251, thanks in part to one deal that closed $45,000 above the asking price. Another 66 sales went for less than the seller’s asking price by an average of $10,647.

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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