What this report tells you: Last month’s report on Arvada homes in the $250-300,000 price range showed a big year-over-year improvement in days on market along with a pretty good uptick in distressed sales, and both trends continued into this month. A home buyer shopping in Arvada in December would have noticed a higher percentage of foreclosed properties, and would have had to act fast to get one for themselves.
Click this link to see Arvada Home Sales in the other price categories.
The following information was obtained from Metrolist on January 14, 2012. This report includes only detached single family Arvada homes that sold between $250,000 and $300,000.
- 8 Arvada homes sold in December 2011 between $250,000 and $300,000. 29 median days on market. 1 home sold as a foreclosure, one as a short sale. So in this price range 25% of Arvada homes were distressed sales in December of 2011.
Arvada homes that sold between $250,000 and $300,000 in December 2011 were found in the following neighborhoods:
Westwoods Ranch (Click to read this neighborhood report)
Ralston Acres * Woodland Valley * Maplewood Estates
Columbine Acres * Ralston Estates * Cottonwood Ridge
Arbor Estates
- 2010 saw 12 Arvada homes sell during December between $250,000 and $300,000. 95 median days on market. 1 home sold as a foreclosure, 1 as a short sale. That means 8% of homes sold in Arvada in December of 2010 were distressed sales.
- 2009 saw 12 Arvada homes sell during December between $250,000 and $300,000. 67 median days on market. 1 home sold was a foreclosure, none were short sales. An 8% rate of distressed Arvada home sales in December of 2009.
- Currently, there are 40 Arvada homes for sale and 11 under contract in this price range.
Of those that are for sale, 3 are foreclosures and 1 is a short sale. 10% of Arvada homes for sale today between $200 and $250,000 are distressed sales.
If you would like any more details or to see any of these Arvada homes for sale, please contact me asap.
Of the Arvada homes currently under contract, 1 is a short sale and 1 is a foreclosure. That’s a 18% rate of distressed sales.
(I’m using the term ‘distressed sales’ to refer to short sales and foreclosures. A ‘regular’ sale may also have been ‘distressed’ in the sense that the home was in need of major work.)
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Joetta Fort, Broker Associate
Equity Colorado 
