New listings introduced to the Saskatoon multiple listing service® followed a similar path falling twenty-two units from last week to 130 homes, and finishing fifteen units higher than the same week in 2010.
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Following a small downturn last week, the result of month end expired listings, the inventory of residential real estate listings available in Saskatoon moved up to its highest point this year with 1,421 properties showing an active status on the system. That’s a gain of twenty-eight compared to the close of the previous week, and just fifteen units higher than inventory levels for the same time last year. Today, there are 826 single-family homes and 511 condominiums for sale on the local MLS®, virtually unchanged from a year ago when those numbers stood at 828 and 504 respectively.
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There were forty-one cancelled and withdrawn listings processed this week. Thirty of those returned to the system disguised as a new listing on the same day they were removed. Eighty Saskatoon home sellers adjusted their asking price this week. I’m quite certain that would be the largest number of price changes that we’ve seen for any week this year.
The median selling price of a Saskatoon home moved higher again, gaining about fifteen thousand dollars from last week to reach $307,900. Nine home sales with prices exceeding five hundred thousand dollars helped move the average selling price higher. It fell just shy of the peak for this year and closed at $328,263. The six-week average price slipped for the second consecutive week to finish just five hundred dollars lower than last week at $317,770 for a year-over-year gain of roughly seventeen thousand dollars. The four-week median sale price moved in the opposite direction picking up almost four thousand dollars on the week to reach $298,900 for an annual gain of ten thousand dollars.
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Overbid activity fell from nine units last week to seven. On average, those lucky sellers bagged an additional $4,050 compared to their asking price. Three more sold at full list price while eighty-one on ninety-one buyers managed to grind a bit of a discount averaging $8,554 or about 2.7 percent.
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