[quote author="Zulu" date=1252718094]I can't help but wonder what your motivation is for continuing with the doom and gloom. Bloodbath? Prices fell 30-40% in the first year and a half to two years after the market started tanking. Maybe 50% on some homes. Just because some sellers are late to the party and are just now finding out their homes are worth about half of what they thought doesn't mean that home prices are falling at the same rate as before. Do prices have further to fall? Maybe. But another 30-50%? I don't think so.
Re: Stalemate in the Los Ranchos Estates. Not surprising because most are old and all of them are overpriced. There is, however, one spec home being built in the Los Ranchos Estates. It's large at 7000 sf but not overly so, on 2 acres, great location, great floor plan and is priced at least a couple of million less than the aging homes which are not selling. It looks like the builder gets it. The only other new homes in Coto are the 9,500 sf monster on Palma Valley and the 10,000 sf tract home right on Coto drive - awful homes and no surprise they haven't sold. They wouldn't even sell in a good market, so you can't use those homes to judge the overall market.
As far as Shady goes, other than what is under construction the spec building has all but stopped. The supply of new homes is dwindling, showing that market forces are taking effect. Home prices for the customs that were in the $6's are now in the low-to-high $3 million range and the reason that not many homes are selling is because most sellers don't believe that's where prices really are.</blockquote>
I did not say stalemate in Los Ranchos Estates, nor am I using the two spec homes you mentioned. I said stalement is in the entire <a href="http://www.cotohousingblog.com/?p=3625">$1.75mil and up price range</a>... this includes places like The Woods, Forest, etc as well as Atherton and Weatherly. Actually, in my analysis I'm ignoring above $4mil, because those become the high price estates where, honestly, you expect them to take a long time to sell... I eliminated those because I don't want those outliers skewing my data.
I wouldn't go as far as Awgee and say that places which have already tanked 30-40% will tank significantly further... honestly I don't know.
It would not be unreasonable to say prices in the upper end of the market will fall 30%. Right now it would be hard to argue they have fallen at all, if anything most asking prices are ABOVE bubble era comps. You have a negative feedback loop where people are listing relative to other listing prices, rather that listing relative to closed sales. The result is nothing is moving.
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