Fancy Chocolate Can't Compete With Good Home Central Air

Fancy Chocolate Can’t Compete With Good Home Central Air

While I personally think chocolate is overrated, Paris is not but I am very glad I am not there at the moment.

I want to extend a quick shoutout to my Columbia real estate grad students, who yesterday learned that development doesn’t always provide the luxury of time to complete their thoughtful analysis (or quizzes).

But I digress…

Q2 Elliman Report Quarterly Gauntlet, Week 4: Long Island, Hamptons & North Fork

Its the final week of Douglas Elliman‘s market report quarterly gauntlet. I have been the author of the expanding series of reports since 1994.

The Elliman Reports:

Elliman Report: Q2-2019 Long Island Sales
Elliman Report: Q2-2019 Hamptons Sales
Elliman Report: Q2-2019 North Fork Sales

Here are some of the key trends identified in each report and some of our favorite charts in each market:

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LONG ISLAND SALES

“Despite the sharp rise of listing inventory, prices pressed higher.”

– The number of sales edged higher annually for the second time in three quarters
– The median sales price has not declined year over year for twenty-five straight quarters
– Largest year over year increase in listing inventory in twelve and a half years
– The first year over year rise in condo listing inventory in nineteen quarters
– Number of single-family sales rose year over year for the fourth time in five quarters
– Most luxury listing inventory in nine years as marketing time expanded

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HAMPTONS SALES

“Sales above the $10 million threshold were in line with the quarterly average for the decade.”

– Six straight quarters of year over year sales declines but the rate fell sharply
– Listing inventory increased significantly on an annual basis over the last three quarters
– Median sales price decreased year over year for the fifth time in six quarters
– Least number of second-quarter sales in eight years
– Luxury listing inventory expanded year over year for the eighth straight quarter
– The number of $5 million or higher sales equaled the decade quarterly average
– Luxury price trend indicators showed mixed results as marketing time fell

Bloomberg covered the report and the market in an article and on video.

On the Bloomberg Hamptons article, it was the 12th most-read story on the 350,000± Terminals worldwide (No screenshot this week). Plus its the only real estate article I’ve ever appeared in where the title used the term “Dither” so yet another bucket list item was checked off.

And let’s not forget about their chart

CNBC covered our research in this article and the following video. Good stuff.

And some of our charts to ponder

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NORTH FORK SALES

“Highest market share of sales below $1 million in two years.”

– The number of sales surged year over year at the highest rate in four and a half years
– Listing inventory rose annually for the third straight quarter but remained well below the decade average
– Median sales price has not declined annually in nine quarters
– Second highest total of sales over $2 million in two and a half years
– Luxury median sales price declined year over year for the second time in three quarters
– Luxury listing inventory rose annually for three consecutive quarters

Q2 Elliman Report Quarterly Gauntlet, Week 4: Aspen/Snowmass Village, Los Angeles, Malibu/Malibu Beach, Venice/Mar Vista Q2 2019

The Elliman Reports:

Elliman Report: Q2-2019 Aspen/Snowmass Village Sales
Elliman Report: Q2-2019 Greater Los Angeles Sales
Elliman Report: Q2-2019 Venice/Mar Vista Sales
Elliman Report: Q2-2019 Malibu/Malibu Beach Sales

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ASPEN SALES HIGHLIGHTS

Trends
“In an emerging trend, the number of sales moved higher from year-ago levels.”

– The number of sales surged year over year, up for the third straight quarter
– Listing inventory declined year over year after rising for four straight quarters
– Average price per square foot drifted lower year over year for the fourth straight quarter
– The number of sales above $10 million jumped year over year by twenty-nine percent
– Luxury average price per square foot declined year over year for the fourth straight quarter
– Luxury listing inventory expanded year over year for the fourth consecutive quarter

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SNOWMASS VILLAGE SALES HIGHLIGHTS

Trends
“Listing inventory declined across property types.”

– The second highest number of sales in fourteen years
– Listing inventory declined for the second straight quarter
– The average sales size declined which skewed price trend indicators lower
– Luxury average price per square foot fell for the second time in three quarters
– Luxury listing inventory rose for the thirteenth time in the last fourteen quarters

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GREATER LOS ANGELES INCLUDING WESTSIDE AND DOWNTOWN SALES HIGHLIGHTS

“The market was characterized by fewer sales and more listing inventory.”

– Market wide median sales price rose year over year to the third highest level on record
– Listing inventory expanded annually for the fifth straight quarter
– All price trend indicators rose year over year as marketing time edged higher
– Luxury median sales price expanded year over year as inventory grew at a slower pace than the overall market

LA SUBMARKETS

MALIBU/MALIBU BEACH
– Malibu single-family sales and listing inventory continued to remain below year-ago levels
– Malibu Beach condo price trend indicators continued to surge as the number of sales declined

VENICE/MAR VISTA
– Venice single-family price trend indicators and sales moved higher year over year
– Mar Vista condo sales and price trend indicators rose year over year

New York to South Florida Explored

There was an interesting developing story that I’ve been chronicling since the beginning of 2018 with the introduction of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 also known as the “SALT” tax.

The federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law in late 2017 brought with it sweeping changes that limited deductions on state and local taxes — with taxpayers particularly hard hit in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, which are among the states with the highest income and property taxes.

According to US Census Bureau data, Florida had the highest number of migrants from other states, with New York contributing the most — 63,722 people during the 12 months ended in July 2018.

[Source: Wikipedia]

#UNHAPPYNEWYORKERS

To help New Yorkers to make the decision to move to Florida to enjoy lower taxes, this is one way a developer is executing their marketing plan. It’s a site worth exploring.

More Bubbletalk

Over at Visual Capitalist, there was a massive infographic on housing bubble risk by country:

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And here is another take from Bloomberg:

Just Because We Obviously Need All These Amenities

My basement is loaded with musty boxes of old cups and plates, furniture, photo albums, and the kids hand me down clothes that the younger siblings decided they wouldn’t be caught wearing. Plus we have two boilers, an oil tank, a sealed tunnel entrance used in the Civil War as part of the Underground Railroad as well as exposed wooden beams from the late 1700s.

The alternative reality is provided by prolific Hamptons developer Joe Farrell in a very soft East End market: “It features a full bowling alley, a rock climbing wall, a halfpipe, a performing arts theater, a spa and a convertible basketball/squash court.”

NAR Releases Their International Real Estate Member Survey

Formally called the Profile of International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate 2019, U.S. residential real estate has no intensive public data on activity because of fair lending rules and concerns about things like redlining. This is a membership survey and surveys can be very inaccurate. Still, it is all we have in this space.

The following are two of the summary pages from the report. I always find this report interesting, especially because international demand has been so important to U.S. residential and commercial real estate since the financial crisis. In fact I’ve used it to create a proxy for international activity in Manhattan.

This Week in Aspirational Pricing: The Palm Beach $300 (Million)

The dam burst open in July – there were $300 Million in July closings of residential homes in the tiny housing market of Palm Beach is incredible. Here’s a photo gallery tour of all the sales from Shiny Sheet:

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TD Ameritrade: Jonathan Miller’s Housing Sector Breakdown

In Times Square, a relatively new financial market streaming service was launched a few blocks from my office. I joined Nicole Petallides on her show “The Watch List” which was the same set where I’ve appeared on CNBC Squawkbox within the NASDAQ studio. Apparently, Nicole was the first anchor ever on Fox Business News.

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NYC Housing Market Listicles

This Realtor.com article was based on our data analysis to flesh out the highest and lowers YOY change of all neighborhoods. The reason for nearly every extreme change in price within each neighborhood was the entrance or exit in new development closings.

Getting Graphic

Freddiemac’s Len Kiefer is the best real estate visualization expert on the planet.

Appraiserville

(For earlier appraisal industry commentary, visit my old clunky REIC site.)

A bit overloaded with projects right now so Appraiserville took the week off. Will be back next week.

OFT (One Final Thought)

Why the Tour de France is so brutal: Think about all the exercise you’ve done during the month of July. While you were doing that, these people were riding up and down mountains for typically 5-7 hours nearly every day. Every year I have this race streaming either live or on replay every day for most of the month (with the sound off so I could get some work done.) The countryside scenes are spectacular and so is the race drama once you understand concepts like the peloton, breakaways and the term “suffering.” The sport gets limited love in the U.S., but hey, that’s their loss.

Brilliant Idea #1

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Brilliant Idea #2

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Fancy Chocolate Can't Compete With Good Home Central Air

Fancy Chocolate Can’t Compete With Good Home Central Air

Q2 Elliman Report Quarterly Gauntlet, Week 4: Long Island, Hamptons & North Fork