Want the very latest insight into our Lake Norman real estate market? So do I which is why, every month, I do a snapshot analysis of the middle two weeks of the month to get a sense of where we are at this very moment…an almost live insight into the heartbeat of the Lake Norman housing market.

Historically, October is not a dynamic month for our Lake Norman housing market.  Since 2005 only 2 October total closed home sales totals exceeded September’s but unfortunately one was last October which happened to be the second highest sales month in all of 2014. My last few market reports revealed a slowing in our sales and overall activity and I even predicted that we were not going to match last October’s strong home sales in our Lake Norman area.  As of today we have 57 total closed sales since the first of October compared to last month’s 72, August’s 83 and 95 closed sales at the same time in July. As you can see below, we had the second highest 2-week hot sheet closed sales totals of all previous Octobers but significantly lower than the past two months 4 months of 2015. We currently have 216 single family homes under contract (sellers have accepted an offer but the sale is not complete) in all of Lake Norman compared to last month’s 247 and August’s 285. There is no doubt Lake Norman’s housing market has slowed down but not unusually so for this time of year. Let’s take a closer look:

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