Sarasota County is moving towards a balanced market in lockstep with Manatee. However, it has a longer way to go to reach that balance. At the current pace, it looks like Sarasota County is a few months behind Manatee in reaching an equilibrium. That said, conditions are very fluid. For now, sellers still hold most of the cards in SFH transactions in Sarasota.
Closed sales continued their YoY downward trend while new listings continued their YoY upward trend in Manatee in May. That is good news in terms of balancing the market. We still have significantly less inventory than we need to support the current sales volume, but the market is moving giving buyers some leverage.
The single-family home market in Manatee didn’t turn as much as Sarasota did in April. That said, there will be even more movement towards buyers in May. We still have a long way to go towards market balance, but there is more hope for buyers now than there has been in quite some time.
The market started to materially shift in April, with even more change arriving in May. We finally have over a month of inventory available for single-family homes in Sarasota County (but just barely). The market still favors sellers in a big way, but more balance appears headed our way.
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