The Baltimore-area housing market in 2010
Photo by Sun photographer Kenneth K. Lam
Want to see what the housing market in the Baltimore metro area looks like down to the city neighborhoods and suburban communities?
You're in luck. Words, maps, photos and databases -- take your pick:
--Read about the trends I saw when I crunched all the January-through-June home sales.
--Check out these nifty interactive maps of the region: prices here, sales figures here. Three cheers to Alex Tribou on the Sun's graphics team for tackling this time-consuming effort.
--Enjoy the photo galleries of housing-market extremes. Priciest places here. Other top 10s, including most sales and biggest price drops, here. Huzzahs to editor Liz Hacken for turning the data into a visual tour of the region.
--See all the price and sales data in ZIP codes and city neighborhoods that interest you. Here's the searchable database for ZIP codes, and here's the database for city neighborhoods. (Areas had to have at least five sales in the first half of this year and the first half of last year to be included in the analysis, and thus the databases.) Applause to web guru Lauren Custer for creating the databases.
Hope you find it all informative and interesting.
Categories: Housing market experiences, Housing stats
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Comments
Is there any reliable source that provides, by County, the percentage of mortgages financed each month via FHA guaranty? Ideally it would provided the percentage of mortgages via FHA, via Freddie, via Fannie, via VA, and so on. In addition, it would be preferable to get this not only by number of mortgages on final sales but also by dollars. For example, FHA may be 50% of mortgages in June 2010 but only 25% of dollars because they are small loans.
Sites such as yours and others have provided some wild numbers, usually without attribution, ranging from 20% to 70% FHA-financed at any given time. I am wondering why, two and a half years into the liquidity crisis, we still can't get good data. Without good data, the markets will NEVER come back because international capital investors will still be very, very skittish if they think we in the USA are still fudging the numbers, even after all the water under the bridge.
Posted by: Craigie | August 8, 2010 12:06 PM
Craigie, I sure hope I've never provided any "wild numbers" without attribution -- I'm all about the attribution. You can find monthly figures on financing, including how many home sales are handled through FHA and VA, right here: http://www.mris.com/reports/stats/monthly_reti.cfm
That's compiled by Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, which runs the regional multiple list, so it's only the number, not the dollar value. FHA itself should have much more detailed data. And industry publications such as Inside Mortgage Finance keep close track on this market, too.
Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | August 8, 2010 12:52 PM