Sunday, May 22, 2011

NH Real Estate Today

By Donald Christopher


This article addresses specifics of the state of New Hampshire and real estate market statistics. There's a great deal of data that could be included however this article will review just the major metrics which are widely considered by far the most relevant in the industry.

New Hampshire is among the six New England states and shares a border with Maine, Massachusetts, & Vermont. It's got a population of just about 1,316,000 people as in the 2010 census with an median income of $60,000 annually. The vast majority with the population and thus the majority of the homes are situated within the southern area with the state distributed amongst the cities and their suburbs. The largest cities in the state are Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Portsmouth, & Salem.

New Hampshire real estate has followed a particularly parallel route of decline, although not quite as dramatic as the national real-estate market over the past five years. For the year in 2010 there were 16,140 real-estate selling recorded including residential, condo, & manufactured housing classes. The median sales price was $185,000 across all property styles. The total of homes sold was down approximately 1.5% from 2009 and the average sales price was the same.

Additional NH real estate metrics worthwhile referencing are both the average days on market(DOM) and the selling price per square foot(PSF). The average days on market was about 150 on the year. This is an important figure to home sellers because of the fact it gives them a signal of about how long it will require them to sell their home. So it will require on average 5 months to sell a home. Typically there are scores of scenarios where it's going to take significantly less time and circumstances where homes take longer. And also realize that a large amount of homes don't sell at all and those homes won't be measured in the DOM figures.

Average selling price per square foot is a means designed to roughly estimation the value of one home versus another. It is relatively very easy to get through to the figure given the calculation is actually performed consistently. There is much debate about whether or not to use total square feet within the building(included any unfinished or below grade space) as well as to calculate just the finished space and above grade space. There is no positively proper manner to arrive at this figure, nevertheless , the most standard practice has been to divide the selling price by the quantity of finished above grade square feet in a property. Make use of this number just for a rough estimate on account that numbers may well be grossly skewed by smaller homes that incorporate superb finish work or features which drive up the sales price and for that reason PSF.

The NH real estate market continues to see some devaluation and it is more likely to persist for another 12-18 months. At that point most analysts expect to see to see a slow flattening of prices before any hope of any rise in home values.




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