Nancy's Santa Barbara Real Estate Blog


This is an analysis of the Santa Barbara Real Estate market including Carpinteria/Summerland, Montecito, Hope Ranch, downtown Santa Barbara and Goleta through the month of April 2012. For the Home Estate market April marked the second month in a row that sales were at or above 100. The median sales price fell however from $835,000 in March to about $760,000 in April. The reason for the decline in that median sales price is that 70 of the 100...
This is an analysis of the Santa Barbara Real Estate market including Carpinteria/Summerland, Montecito, Hope Ranch, downtown Santa Barbara and Goleta through the month of March 2012. For the Home market after experiencing about 70 sales in January and February the numbers of sales rose to 99 in March. To emphasize that rise in activity, not only did the numbers of sales go up but the median sales price also went up to about $845,000 from $677,...
This is an analysis of the Santa Barbara Real Estate market including Carpinteria/Summerland, Montecito, Hope Ranch, downtown Santa Barbara and Goleta through the month of February 2012. Sales for the month lagged slightly from January but the numbers of escrows remained strong with over 100. This marks the third month in a row where escrows have been slightly below or slightly above 100. The median sales price for the month declined however...
This is an analysis of the Santa Barbara Real Estate market including Carpinteria/Summerland, Montecito, Hope Ranch, downtown Santa Barbara and Goleta through the month of January 2012.  Starting with the Home sector for the month of January 2012 we had 69 sales compared to 42 in January 2011. The median sales price after falling for the previous 4 months rose from $707,000 in December to $810,000 in January putting it just slightly...
This is an analysis of the Santa Barbara Real Estate market including Carpinteria Real Estate/Summerland Real Estate, Montecito Real Estate, Hope Ranch Real Estate, downtown Santa Barbara and Goleta Real Estate through the month of December 2011 and all of 2011. Starting with the Home Estate/PUD sector after experiencing 3 months in a row of falling sales December rebounded nicely with 98 closings. The median sales price continued to decline...
For the Home Estate/PUD market of Santa Barbara, Montecito, Hope Ranch, Carpinteria, Summerland and Goleta after seeing a rise in the numbers of sales each month from June to August, September 2011saw a decline in the numbers of properties sold down to 85 from the high of 97 the previous month. The median sales price did go up however to $800,000 from $739,000 in August but, the average sales price declined from approximately $1.2 milllion in...