Half Year Market Report for Westport, CT -

According to anecdotal evidence, there were lots of consumers house hunting, in Westport, CT, during the spring market of 2008. However, half-year sales statistics do not reflect that activity. Perhaps, expectations were too high. Buyers, armed with media stories of puchases, 25, 30 or more percent, off asking price, came ready to buy their Westport dream homes, at bargain prices. Instead they found moderating prices but no huge discounts. Others could not move forward, on their purchase, because their current home had not sold.

Prices remained stable, when compared with the comparable period, a year ago. Average sale price of a single family home rose less than one percent in 2008, to $1,690,810, compared with $1,677,291 for the first half of 2007. Median sold price also remained flat, down less than one percent, during the first half of the 2008, at $1,339,000 vs. $1,350,000 in 2007,

Unit sales, however, painted a much different picture. Only 121 single family homes sold, from January through June 2008. That represents a 44 percent drop, compared with the first six months of 2007. There are currently 357 active listings of single family homes, in Westport. If the current sales rate, persists, that's an eighteen month supply of inventory. Logically, that should exert pressure on sales price, but we haven't yet seen a precipitous drop.

Westport, Connecticut
January-June
single family home sales