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Market Conditions

South Bend Real Estate Sales Report: February 2010

March 3, 2010

The South Bend Area MLS records show that in February 2010:

152 residential properties sold
247 residential properties went under contract
396 properties were listed for sale (includes properties re-listed after expiring unsold)

The 152 sales add up to $13.16 million in volume. That is about 37% higher than January 2010 and about 18% higher than one year ago [...]

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South Bend Real Estate Sales Report: January 2010

February 4, 2010

The South Bend Area MLS records for January 2010 show that

121 residential properties sold
201 residential properties went under contract
491 residential properties were listed for sale

The 121 sales added up to $9.6 million in volume. That is the lowest monthly sales volume going back as far as the South Bend MLS provides electronic records, mid 2001. It is also [...]

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Every 2009 Sales Price at a Glance

January 17, 2010

Searching the South Bend Area MLS for all sales in 2009 returns 2,964 sales for a combined total of $309,895,210.

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South Bend Real Estate Report: December 2009

January 5, 2010

The South Bend Area MLS contains information on 234 sales that closed in December 2009 with a
cumulative volume of $25.04 million. That is down from last months $27.48 million in sales,
though up from December 2008’s $22.61 million in sales which was the lowest amount since our
area’s MLS began keeping digital records in August 2001. The [...]

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South Bend Home Sales: The Low End vs. The Luxury Market

December 16, 2009

I started looking at year long statistics for the South Bend Area real estate market to begin work on an end of year summary and culled a few figures interesting enough to post now.
There are 472 homes listed for sale in the South Bend area for $50,000 or less. There are 470 homes listed for [...]

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South Bend Real Estate Report: November 2009

December 3, 2009

The South Bend Area MLS contains information on 245 sales that closed in November 2009. They add up to $27.48 million in sales. That is slightly higher than October 2009, though lower than November 2008.
There has been speculation that the homeubuyer’s tax credit, which originally expired November 30th but has since been extended through June [...]

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South Bend Real Estate Report: October 2009

November 2, 2009

There are 272 closed sales for October 2009 recorded in the South Bend Area MLS totaling about $28.79 million in sales volume.
That’s a bit higher than September 2009, which had 238 sales that totaled about $24.97 million. Such an increase is not uncommon – sales have risen from September to October five of the last nine years. [...]

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