Market Updats on Olrando Condos
The market for Orlando condos have improved for the fourth straight months due to low rates and more affordable prices than in the past years. New first time home buyers have the best market conditions since the March of 2004.
Over 4,000 condos are currently listed with Multiple Listing Services of Orlando, Florida. Majority of these available inventories are foreclosures, short sales, and bank owned properties, which have driven down the sales prices. The majority of these condos sell for anywhere from $100,000 up to $120,000 making it a bargain.
There seems to be some optimism in the marketplace as the sales have increased over 42 percent from 2007 with over 137 Orlando condos changing ownership in the last month of 2008. The downside is that majority of these sales are happening in condos below the $100,000 prices level, far from the over $500,000 condos couple of years ago.
Much of the buyers of new homes have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the prices to decline further, but the market seems to have bottomed out from the lows of 2008. With the price pressure and costs lower, some buyers are returning back to the market. For all of 2008, sales price has decreased by over 32 percent.
With the recent turmoils in financial markets, many Orlando condos that have begun construction have stalled and many developers are in bankruptcy. But few condominium projects have come to market recently in Downtown Orlando. The Plaza and The Jackson have recently finished and new tenants are moving in although lot of the units are unoccupied.
With over 50 percent of Orlando condos in distressed, either as Bank Owned or Short Sales, you have many options to choose from, with prices at the levels of early 2000′s. With many new projects coming to downtown area, you should have even more options and more choices to choose from. Many developers will be increasing incentives and decreasing prices to further attract buyers.
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