NH Real Estate






by Bill Johnson


New Hampshire is among the 6 New England states and shares a border with Maine, Massachusetts, & Vermont. It has a population of around 1,316,000 people as in the 2010 census with an median income of $60,000 annually. The vast majority of your population and thus the bulk of the homes are located in the southern section of the state dispersed amongst the cities and their suburbs. The largest cities in the state are Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Portsmouth, & Salem.

New Hampshire real estate has followed a fairly parallel route of decline, though not quite as dramatic as the national real-estate market throughout the last five years. For the year in 2010 there were 16,140 real-estate selling documented between residential, condo, & manufactured housing types. The average selling price was $185,000 across all property classes. The total of homes sold was reduced around 1.5% from 2009 and the median sales price was unmoved.

Additional NH real estate metrics worthwhile of referencing are both the average days on market(DOM) while the sales price per square foot(PSF). The average days on market was around 150 for the year. This is a vital figure to home sellers when you consider that it gives them an indicator of approximately the length of time it takes them to sell their property. So it will require an average of 5 months to sell a property. Obviously there are a large number of situations where it takes substantially less time and situations where homes take more time. On top of that keep in mind that a great deal of homes don't sell at all and those homes are not measured in the DOM figures.

Average sales price per square foot can be a concept utilized to roughly estimation the value of 1 home vs another. It is relatively very easy to arrive at the figure provided that the calculation is completed consistently. There will be much debate about whether to use total square feet in the building(included any unfinished or below grade space) as well as to count just the finished space and above grade space. There isn't any total correct methodology to arrive at this number, but the most frequently used course of action would be to divide the sales price by the quantity of finished above grade square feet in a property. Use this figure primarily just to get a rough idea given that numbers may possibly be grossly manipulated by smaller homes which happen to have top of the line finish work or resources which drive up the selling price and therefore PSF.

The NH real-estate market persists to experience some devaluation and it is very likely to sustain for another 12-18 months. At that point most analysts are expecting to experience a drawn out flattening of prices before any hope of some rise in home values.




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