The majority of bank owned sales are falling into the entry level range of homes in Downtown San Diego. Over the past 6 months, of 63 bank owned sales that were recorded in the San Diego MLS, 35% fell in the range between $200k – $300k. An additional 25% could be found between $300k and $400k, 17% between $400k and $500k and a then sharp drop above $500k ( to $600k) with 9%.

With a lot of short sales on the market in these ranges that are not selling (I’ll grab some of those numbers later), we can expect to see a healthy (buyers perspective) inventory of foreclosed homes to hang around for the next year, at least.

Foreclosure note: We are closing this week for a client on a unit in Little Italy at 58% of it’s last market sale (last sale was in 04 – Downtown peaked in 06). At $354 per square foot, it is $27 per square less than the average for other bank owned properties. There were 3 offers on this property, all within $15k of each other.