The number of Louisville homes that local home builders sold in all of 2009 was way down from previous years. But contrary to most articles written about the subject, I’m not happy to simply look up how many new homes were sold last year, and then compare the two years. Last year was so bad that even if we had another bad year, it might look half way decent in comparison. To get a better idea of how far we have fallen, as a real estate market, I went back to 2006 and printed up a table of how many Louisville new construction homes sold a few years ago.
In the chart above above, from 2009, you can see that 421 new homes were sold in Louisville with an average sales price of $271,084 and a median sales price of $219,500. Now, let’s look at the chart below, from 2006. Again, for Louisville homes only, we can see that 832 new construction homes sold in 2006. That is just about twice what we sold this past year in 2009. We have seen a 50% decrease in the number of new homes sold. That is hard to overcome, and that is why we are seeing so many Louisville home builders going out of business.
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