June 11, 2012 (Chris Moore)

Home sales continued to climb last week, surpassing the previous year’s peak by just over two percent, and home prices grew year-over-year for the ninth consecutive week according to the weekly National Home Sales Snapshot released by DataQuick.

There were 194,965 properties sold over the previous thirty-day rolling period ending June 8th, up 2.6 percent from the previous week’s total of 190,109 sold properties and 7.6 percent higher than the 181,276 properties sold four weeks ago.

Sales volume was 2.1 percent above the previous year’s cycle peak of 190,934 sales which occurred during the 30-day rolling period prior to September 1st.

Last week’s home sales volume was 7.0 percent higher than the 182,212 homes sold during the same period a year ago and was 10.8 percent higher than during the same period three years ago when 172,037 homes were sold.

The median price of a home sold over the current thirty-day rolling period increased by $2,000 from last week to $188,000 and was 4.4 percent higher than what it was four weeks ago when the median sales price was $180,000.

Home prices were also 7.4 percent higher than the same period a year ago when the median price of a home was $175,000 and were 4.4 percent higher than what they were three years ago when the median price was $180,000. It was the ninth consecutive week that year-over-year home prices surpassed the previous year’s levels.

Over the last five years, median home prices nationwide have ranged from a high of $275,000 to a low of $168,500.

Home sales volume over the last five years has ranged from a high of 339,669 properties sold to a low of 124,051.

The National Home Sales Snapshot includes 98 out of the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas covering 66.25 percent of U.S. home sales.

Tags: DataQuick, home sales, median home price, sales volume

Source:
DataQuick