First of all, when you are looking at these images, please disregard September, 2017. Hurricane Irma blew through Florida starting on September 10, 2017, and with the recovery and cleanup after the storm, September became a lost month for South Florida real estate. Other than September of 2017, these charts do show you what has been happening in the luxury Pinecrest market over the past year or so.
For example, you can see that there were no sales between $3,000,000-$5,000,000 from September of 2016 through February of 2017. Back then I kept saying “it feels like the high-end Pinecrest market is down,” because I showed property but could not get anything in that price range in Pinecrest to move. Well now I see that I was right. It did not just feel like the market was down, it actually was down during those months.
While the market for these high-end listings has come back since earlier this year, this type of house does not necessarily fly off of the market quickly. This is made clear by the fact that in between March and August of 2017 they averaged 230 days on the market. During 4 out of those 6 months, houses in this price range closed for significantly lower dollar amounts than their listed price per square foot, so pricing is obviously a huge factor in the amount of time that homes are spending as active listings.
Just like my gut told me that the market had slowed down in late 2016 and early 2017, it feels to me like the luxury Pinecrest real estate market is going to pick back up after September’s weather-related glitch. There are serious buyers out there, and they want to live in Pinecrest. This time next year when I run these Facts and Trends again, I would not be surprised if the 4th quarter of 2017 reflects Pinecrest’s strongest market of the year!
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