I decided to do this series of breakdowns on sales because even though I believe that what was posted yesterday is helpful for perspective, it doesn't give a full enough story. I keep looking at the 2015 versus 2016 numbers and know that overall 2015 exceeded 2014. Nonetheless, I do think it is instructive to see where the sales were in 2014 before the "improvement." Here we will look at them broken down into many price categories. That may help.

2016 shows an improvement over 2015. With the same number of sales in 2016 as in 2014 and the same total dollars, the one telling part here is that the median sales price is up and the median days on market are down in 2016. Both of these are good news. With 8 sold and 18 active there isn't a huge amount of inventory. That factor is just 2.25 times the number of actives as sold this year.

*734,450 is the total dollars and not in millions.

Wow! This segment is doing well and that's really what I had thought. I've been talking to people and telling them that this is where the action is. This is where people want to spend their dollars and that under $300,000 is a good segment.  You can see that this is a health one. Twenty six sales this year versus the previous two years with 14. Obviously better total dollars. A slightly increased median sales price and a considerably reduced median days on market. Good.   The factor for this one is 2.69 times solds for the active listings. Not bad.