SIGNS of HOPE? PERFORMANCE STATISTICS for SSF: DECEMBER 2010 and YEAR-TO-DATE

Friday, January 14, 2011

My firm, Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate (SSF) has just released its most recent performance statistics.  They're all good but here are a few that particularly caught my attention:

New Written Contracts - $ Value:
     December 2010:  $78 million;
     December 2009:  $59 million;
     December 2008:  $12 million

New Written Contracts - Number of Contracts:
     December 2010:  70 contracts
     December 2009:  56 contracts
     December 2008:  18 contracts

Talk about climbing out of a hole!

Also, during the year ended 12/31/2010, SSF brokers closed transactions valued at $881 million, compared to $499 million during calendar year 2009.

Inventories are coming down, too.  Actively listed properties in Eagle County this month total 1,765, down from the 2010 high of 2,090, a drop of 15%.

And just because I have to brag, SSF in 2010 did more than $1.1 BILLION in commissionable sales compared to our next highest competitor which did $247 million.

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Now here's a purely anecdotal piece of information I came across on Realtor.com, an official Web site of the National Association of REALTORS®.  Here are the top 10 most searched-for cities at Realtor.com in 2010:
     1. Las Vegas
     2. Los Angeles
     3. Orlando
     4. San Antonio
     5. Miami
     6. Phoenix
     7. San Diego
     8. Austin, Texas
     9. Tampa
   10. Chicago

Source: “2010 Top Ten Most Searched Real Estate Markets Released by Realtor.com,” Move Inc. (Jan. 11, 2011)