La Jolla, CA—Southern California home sales rose in June to the highest level in 30 months as the number of deals above $500,000 continued to climb. June’s sales gain, plus another rise in the region’s median sale price, indicate buyers responded to price cuts on mid- to high-end homes and found it easier to secure financing for pricier abodes, a real estate information service reported.
A total of 23,262 new and resale houses and condos closed escrow in San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties last month. That was up 12% percent from 20,775 in May and up 29% from a revised 18,032 a year ago, according to San Diego-based MDA DataQuick (see chart above).
Sales have increased year-over-year for 12 consecutive months.
June’s sales were the highest for that month since 2006, when 31,602 homes sold, but were 17.7 percent below the average June sales total since 1988, when DataQuick’s statistics begin. June sales peaked at 40,156 in 2005 and hit a low last year.
The median price paid for all new and resale houses and condos sold in the Southland last month was $265,000, up 6.4% from $249,000 in May but down 26.4% from $360,000 a year ago. It was the second consecutive month in which the median rose on a month-to-month basis. Before May’s 0.8% increase over April, the median hadn’t risen from one month to the next since July 2007.
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