Home Sales Reach Pre-Recession Levels

The median price of a home in Orange County rose by 4.9 percent in June, compared with the same month a year ago, while the number of homes sold soared by 15.4 percent, a real estate information service announced today.

In Orange County, the median price was $629,500 last month, up 4.9 percent from $600,000 in June 2014. The number of homes sold in June rose to 3,831 from 3,319 in June 2014.

A total of 24,378 new and resale houses and condos changed hands in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange counties last month, according to CoreLogic. That was down 12.1 percent from 21,754 in May and up 18.1 percent from 20,635 in June 2014.

The median price for a Southern California home was $442,000 in June, up 2.8 percent from $430,000 in May and up 5.7 percent from $418,000 in June 2014.

“Southern California’s June home sales were the highest since summer 2006 -- the tail end of the last housing boom -- and sales haven’t risen this sharply on a year-over-year basis in nearly three years,” said Andrew LePage, a data analyst for CoreLogic. “Continued job growth, low mortgage rates, more confident consumers and other factors have put more wind in the housing market’s sails.”

City News Service