Grok The Market

Real Estate Meets Insight: Turning Data Into Decisions – Rob Thompson, Realtor®, Iconic Colorado Properties, LLC

COS: YTD types of purchases

Here is the breakdown of the types of purchases year to date in the Pikes Peak Association of Realtors® (PPAR) region. Cash has made up 18% of purchases year to date, VA loans are 27%, FHA is 8% and conventional is 47%. Why does this matter? It informs buyers and sellers and helps them know […]

COS Vital Stats 10 Mar 2022

Three days and sixty one additional sales, the average closed price over list is up almost $900 to nearly $17K. Cash sales down 2% this week. Why does this information matter? It helps agents, lenders, investors, sellers and buyers know what to expect in our market.

COS: Weekly Closed to List Price Ratios 2019+

The CPLP ratio is my favorite measure. It is the closed to list price ratio, the measure of how much above or below people are paying for homes. Here are the Colorado Springs region closed to list price ratios since 2019. As you can see, we hit a three year high of nearly 6% above […]

COS: 400K-500K State of the Market

Here are the “vital stats” of the market in the 400K-500K price range. What you are seeing here is the last 14 months of data on our market in this bracket to include the per month number of sales, percent of cash sales of those sales, the average closed to list price ratio, average price, […]

COS: Closed to List Price Ratio 2019-2022

One of my favorite measures of the market is the closed to list price ratio. This is the measure of how much below or above list price people are paying for homes. Here we see the last three years of this measure. In Jan 2019, people we paying just over 99% of list price. This […]