Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Real Estate Review: New Hampshire

By Chris Chamberlain


New Hampshire is one of the six New England states and shares a border with Maine, Massachusetts, & Vermont. It's got a population of approximately 1,316,000 people as of the 2010 census with an average income of $60,000 annually. The vast majority in the population and for that reason the bulk in the homes are situated within the southern part in the state distributed among the cities and their suburbs. The key cities in the state are Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Portsmouth, & Salem.

New Hampshire real estate has followed a fairly parallel route of decline, though not quite as dramatic as the national real-estate market throughout the last five years. For the year in 2010 there were 16,140 real-estate selling documented between residential, condo, & manufactured housing types. The average selling price was $185,000 across all property classes. The total of homes sold was reduced around 1.5% from 2009 and the median sales price was unmoved.

Additional NH real estate metrics worthwhile of referencing are both the average days on market(DOM) while the sales price per square foot(PSF). The average days on market was around 150 for the year. This is a vital figure to home sellers when you consider that it gives them an indicator of approximately the length of time it takes them to sell their property. So it will require an average of 5 months to sell a property. Obviously there are a large number of situations where it takes substantially less time and situations where homes take more time. On top of that keep in mind that a great deal of homes don't sell at all and those homes are not measured in the DOM figures.

Average sales price per square foot can be a concept employed to roughly estimate the value of one particular home vs . another. It is comparatively very easy to reach the number provided the calculation is carried out consistently. There is much debate about whether to use total square feet within the building(included any unfinished or below grade space) as well as to add up just the finished space and above grade space. There is not any positively appropriate means to arrive at this figure, however the more common course of action has been to divide the sales price by the volume of finished above grade square feet in a property. Make use of this figure only to get a general estimation in view that numbers can certainly be grossly skewed by modest homes that possess high caliber finish work or comforts which increase the selling price and so PSF.

The NH real-estate market continues to see some depreciation which is very likely to continue for another 12-18 months. At that point most analysts foresee to see a drawn out flattening of prices before any hope of an increase in home values.




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