Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Condo Conversion

News articles during the boom mentioned that rental apartments became scarce as they were converted to more profitable condos. Now that the boom is busting....will condos be converted back? Since I went to the trouble yesterday to gather inventory twice (once with condos and multifamily included, and again with only single family homes), I figured I would post the result.
However I don't plan to track this regularly.

Below is the same data from yesterday, however the column on the right is the percentage of current inventory that is either condo or multi-family home. For instance, Downtown Sac (95814) is overwhelmingly condo/multi-family.

2 comments:

... said...

You might as well publish the "together" stat as Sac RE Stats does.

Many higher end (above $200K) condos end up in the SFR area of MLS even though MLS has a special code for multi family - condo is with SFR. Its all inventory.

Buying Time said...

Dilemma is, I use the inventory to compare with the SacBee Dataquick resale data which is only SFH.

If the inventory is higher, then it inflates the month's inventory. So I am going to try to be consistent and compare SFH sales to SFH inventory. There are some new home sales in the MLS, ans FSBOs outside....so hopfully it will balance out.