The San Diego Condo Market

The San Diego condo market has seen steadyDecember 2009 was up nearly 10%, in
increases in prices over the last six months. Thiscomparison to December of 2008. Sales have
is an excellent sign that the housing market, in thecontinued to remain strong during the first six
area, is starting to settle down as the pricemonths of 2010, which is excellent news for the
declines have stopped. The sales in the area haveSan Diego condo market.
also been steadily increasing. This has caused aIt is interesting to note that just over one third of
decrease in the available inventory on the marketall properties being sold are distressed properties.
and has helped to peak the interest of potentialThese foreclosures are being snatched up at
buyers. The best news about this turnaround isexcellent prices. Back during the housing market
that the values of homes in the area havecrash, many people that had investment
stopped dropping, which is great news for currentproperties in the area chose to let them go into
homeowners as well as prospective buyers.foreclosure because of the bleak outlook of the
In December 2009 the median condo price wenthousing market at the time. Now that the market
up nearly $5000, which brought the median priceis starting to recover slowly, buyers are jumping
to $330,000. This is a big increase over theback in and purchasing properties at a great price.
previous years median price, which came in rightThe condo market in San Diego should continue
around $300,000.to improve as long as interest rates remain low
The California housing market was one of theand the median house prices continue to slowly
hardest hit areas throughout the country. It is ancreep upwards. This will get a lot of people to
excellent sign that the prices have stopped fallingstart thinking about buying again, before prices
and that they are slowly starting to creep backstart to go up a lot. Now is an excellent time to
up. This has spurred a lot of action within thebuy, both for new home buyers as well as
condo market in this area.investment home buyers. With the city being one
Another great sign of a stabilizing housing marketof the most beautiful locations in the world, there
is the increased number of condo sales. Theare numerous reasons why this market will
number of condos sold in the month ofcontinue to stay strong.