To help get a sense of the frenzy conditions, let’s monitor the number of active & pending listings per area.

If the active (unsold) listings start to rise, we will know that pricing is becoming an issue.

But so far, the demand for detached homes between Carlsbad and La Jolla is solid, and buyers are enduring prices that are 20% to 30% higher than last year:

NSDCC Actives and Pendings

Town or Area
Zip Code
Actives/Pendings, Feb 2nd
May 12th
May 26th
Cardiff
92007
11/16
9/12
10/11
Carlsbad NW
92008
17/19
19/30
19/23
Carlsbad SE
92009
9/38
19/60
13/57
Carlsbad NE
92010
1/12
5/13
6/13
Carlsbad SW
92011
2/17
8/16
4/17
Carmel Valley
92130
26/43
20/65
23/63
Del Mar
92014
43/13
34/26
34/26
Encinitas
92024
39/45
33/54
32/56
La Jolla
92037
101/46
82/40
87/47
RSF
92067
96/35
83/54
72/53
RSF
92091
3/7
1/6
Solana Beach
92075
11/10
6/9
7/8
NSDCC
All Above
356/294
321/386
308/380

The 92009, 92011 and 92130 (SE Carlsbad, SW Carlsbad, and Carmel Valley) are scorching hot, with 4x, 4x and 3x as many pendings as actives!  But Rancho Santa Fe is the most impressive of all. There have been times when there were 10x as many actives as pendings in 92067 – today it’s 1.4x!

With the 30-day closings, there shouldn’t be any drastic changes here – let’s examine the trends over time.

We can also track the average market times too. Any upward trends here would indicate market slowing:

I’ll run this every couple of weeks.

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