REAL ESTATE
GILBERT SUN NEWS | APRIL 17, 2022
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The reality of the housing market in Gilbert BY MINDY JONES GSN Columnist
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e’re in that beautiful part of the year where the kids are starting to swim on the weekends and we get the occasional windy day reminding us that the seasons are changing. Transitioning from Spring to Summer means that we’ve got a couple more months before monsoon season takes over the weather reports and people start to move entertainment indoors. For now, festivals are in full swing, patios are packed for brunch and we’re hold-
ing our breath for when it gets just a little too warm for exploring outdoors. Much like the real estate market, we know that change is coming and are taking advantage of every last opportunity before it does. While supply remains top of mind for Valley buyers, we are starting to see a very slight increase in the number of available homes with fewer coming from new construction in the East Valley than our West Valley counterparts. To put the numbers into perspective, Gilbert has 118 single family homes available for sale. While this number is trending up from the number we had available this time last year, it is nowhere near what we need to satisfy current demand.
Keep in mind, the Women and Children’s Pavilion known to many as the Mercy Gilbert Hospital expansion project will support 1,000 new jobs when fully operational – nearly 10 times the current availability of single-family homes in its home town, and that’s only ONE of the major Gilbert employers projecting employment needs in 2022 and beyond. Despite the continued hope by buyers that home prices will fall in the near future, simple supply and demand would indicate that until there are more houses than people who want to buy them, we
will continue to see price increases above and beyond our current average Gilbert home price which has crossed the $600K threshold beating the valley average by just over 5%. While demand has fallen nearly 15% in the last 60 days due to rising interest rates and rapidly increasing home prices, we are still sitt ing at just above normal demand with 76% lower inventory than is normal for this time of year. Doing the math, that
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