Saskatoon real estate agents reported 63 firm residential sales to the multiple listing service® over the past week, five more than the previous week, to finish ahead of the same period last year by 13.

The number of new residential listings added to the MLS® remained steady towards the mid-160’s for the third consecutive week. The total number of Saskatoon homes listed came in at 164 this period, up two from the previous week, and ahead of the number listed over the same week last year by 12. This is the third week in a row in which listings finished higher on an annual basis. Three weeks does not amount to a trend, but this hasn’t happened since the third quarter of 2017, so it might be an interesting number to watch.

MLS® inventory moved higher as it grew by 42 units to reach 1596, down 83 homes from numbers recorded at this time in 2018, and still lower than it has been at the close of this particular week in four years time.

Saskatoon home buyers can find 881 single-family homes on the MLS® system today, down just a bit from 900 a year ago. Condominium inventory has fallen further to 625, lower by 65 units (or 10-ish percent) from the close of the same week last year.

A very active entry level market and some weakness at the upper end ushered the median sale price of a Saskatoon home lower this week to $287,500. The weekly average price moved the same way as it slipped nearly 17K to $301,529.

The six-week average price inched lower for the third consecutive week. It slipped a little under four thousand dollars to close the week at $326,342. That’s up about $2600 from where it stood a year ago, and the third consecutive week in which the measure took annual gains. The four-week median price fell lower for the third week in a row after it spiked higher through February. It slipped nearly 5K this week to settle at $320,000 to record an annual increase of $10,000.

After recording some competitive buyer activity the previous week, over list price sales left the chart entirely. In fact, 61 of 63 home sellers gave up some dollars to make a deal with their buyer. Those sales recorded an average discount of $12,916.

Here is a breakdown of what the sales to listing price ratio looked like on this week’s sales. Please note that those sales that do show a sale price that is greater than the list price are all new properties that spent some period of time on the market, and most likely included additional improvements that were not reflected in the original list price. We report these to you as “at list price sales”, which is likely too generous in some cases, but it’s simply not practical to obtain the full details of each sale.

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Saskatoon real estate sales in the residential category grew to 58 this past week for a weekly increase of eight. The number of sales matched those reported for the same week last year.

New listing activity continued to heat up as 162 Saskatoon homes were offered for sale on the multiple listing service®. That number is identical to those recorded the previous week and higher than we saw during the same period a year earlier by nine.

The inventory of active MLS® listings grew by 48 this week to reach 1554. That’s down 97 units from a year earlier. While total active listing numbers remain at their lowest level for the close of week 10 for the past five years, current levels leave us with the smallest annual decline that we’ve seen this year. Spring is just around the corner and we will expect to see these numbers grow each week until late June or early July when inventory should reach its annual peak.

Today, there are 860 single-family homes showing an active status on the MLS®, down just 19 listings from a year earlier. There are 601 Saskatoon condominiums for sale today. That’s about a 12 percent decline from this time last year when 680 condos were available to buyers.

Sales activity remained strong at the market’s entry-level (under $200K) and the weekly median slipped lower again to $315,000. A shortage of sales above the $500,000 mark took the weekly average lower to $318,303.

The six-week average price fell about forty-five hundred dollars from last week to close this period at $330,183 for an annual increase of two thousand dollars. Meanwhile, the four-week median price slipped modestly. It was down less than five hundred dollars from the previous week to $324,575 taking an annual gain approaching fifteen thousand dollars.

For the first time in a few weeks, we saw some competitive buyer activity that drove sale prices above the seller’s asking price. Three resale properties reported a sale price that was, on average, $1983 more than the seller had asked when they listed their home for sale. Buyers largely won at the negotiating table as 46 of 58 sales reported a sale price that was $13,218 below the seller’s listed price, on average.

Here is a breakdown of what the sales to listing price ratio looked like on this week’s sales. Please note that those sales that do show a sale price that is greater than the list price are all new properties that spent some period of time on the market, and most likely included additional improvements that were not reflected in the original list price. We report these to you as “at list price sales”, which is likely too generous in some cases, but it’s simply not practical to obtain the full details of each sale.

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I’m always happy to answer your Saskatoon real estate questions. All of my contact info is here. Please feel free to call or email.

Norm Fisher

Royal LePage Vidorra

Full disclosure: this week’s sales included two mobile homes on rented land. Given the fairly low numbers of sale overall, they were really skewing prices, especially in area one. I removed these homes from the average and median price calculations for the week but left them for the longer term measures where they were distributed over a larger sample and had less of an impact.

Sales numbers followed a fairly predictable path, given the season, as Saskatoon real estate agents reported 50 firm residential sales to the multiple listing service®, down just one from the previous week, and down two when compared to the same week last year.

Meanwhile, new listing activity came on like a spring rush as 162 Saskatoon homes hit the MLS® system. That number exceeds listings for the previous week by 25 for an annual increase of seven.

The disparity between firm sales and new listings brought about the largest single-week gain to Saskatoon’s MLS® listings inventory that we’ve seen this year. Overall, available listings grew to 1506, up from 1427 at least week’s close, and down from the 1611 Saskatoon homes available to buyers at the same point of 2018.

Condominium inventory closed the week at 599, down roughly ten percent from levels recorded a year earlier. This morning there are 820 single-family homes for sale in Saskatoon, down from 864 a year ago.

A larger number of purchases toward the market’s entry-level brought the weekly median price sharply lower to $320,000. The average price of a Saskatoon home this week followed along to finish the week at $335,305.

The six-week average price was stable compared to the previous week. It came in at $334,638 which is up annually by a bit more than five thousand dollars. The four-week median price took its sixth consecutive weekly increase as it moved higher to $325,000, up from $310,000 at the close of the same week last year.

Once again, overbid sales were nowhere to be found, aside from a few new home sales that likely wrapped up with some negotiated extras driving up the price. Buyers won a bit of a discount in 45 of 50 sales this week. Those sales closed below the seller’s asking price by an average of $12,200.

Here is a breakdown of what the sales to listing price ratio looked like on this week’s sales. Please note that those sales that do show a sale price that is greater than the list price are all new properties that spent some period of time on the market, and most likely included additional improvements that were not reflected in the original list price. We report these to you as “at list price sales”, which is likely too generous in some cases, but it’s simply not practical to obtain the full details of each sale.

More weekly stats and numbers for those who love them.

Thank-you for reading TeamFisher’s Saskatoon Real Estate Week in Review.

I’m always happy to answer your Saskatoon real estate questions. All of my contact info is here. Please feel free to call or email.

Norm Fisher

Royal LePage Vidorra