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Published on: 6/4/2006
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Bob Hamrick, broker-owner of Coldwell Banker Premier Realty in Las Vegas, said the local Multiple Listing Service has added about 300 single-family homes a week in recent weeks.
"Unless we see a downward change in those growing numbers, that will start to be concerning," Hamrick said.
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"Properties are still selling, and the ones that are selling are the homes that are priced the way they need to be priced to respond to this market," Hamrick said.
But sellers sometimes have a hard time accepting the new inventory climate.
Said Hamrick: "If you told a seller who bought for $200,000 three years ago that his home would be worth $350,000 today, he would probably think that was fantastic.But if, instead, somewhere in that period, that house could have sold for $365,000, now the buyer is looking at that $15,000 difference, rather than the $150,000 in appreciation he really has."
Sellers who can wait to sell their properties should expect sustained population growth, job formation and a constrained land supply to aid the market's inventory outlook in the long term, real estate professionals said.
"I hate unjustified optimism, but there is true justification to feel confident that in the years to come our market is going to continue to be strong," Hamrick said.