Brea home market quickens in late June

Posted on by Listify Me

Real estate for sale in Brea looks brighter by one set of statistics.

Every two weeks, Orange County broker Steve Thomas publishes a report on the supply of local homes for sale. Here’s what the latest report — as of June 23 — has to say about Brea …


  • 91 residences listed in brokers’ MLS system with 41 new deals opening in the past 30 days.
  • By Thomas’s math, this community has a “market time” (months in would take to sell all inventory at current pace of new escrows) of 2.22 months vs. 2.88 months found two weeks earlier vs. 2.80 months seen a year earlier. Countywide, latest market time was 3.72 months vs. 3.37 months a year ago.
  • Of the homes listed for sale in this community, 35 were either foreclosures being resold or short sales, where sellers owe more than the home’s value. So distressed properties were 38.5% of supply of homes for sale vs. 33.5% countywide.
  • Homes for sale in Brea represent 0.8% of Orange County inventory — and 0.9% of all the distressed homes listed for sale in Orange County. New escrows here are 1.3% of all Orange County’s new pending sales.

Compare these trends to countywide patterns:

  • Cities with highest level of distressed properties among their listings? Anaheim was tops — 60.1% — followed by Rancho Santa Marg. at 59.6% of listings and La Habra at 58.8% of listings.
  • Fewest? Seal Beach was tops — 5.2% — followed by Corona Del Mar at 5.7% of listings and Laguna Woods at 6.7% of listings.

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