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July 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats

Hi folks! Below are last month’s Big Bear real estate sold stats for single family residences. I removed one auction property that sold in Big Bear Lake for over $200K of “asking” because it really skewed the numbers misleadingly and pushed the Sales price to List price ratio (SP/LP) over 102%. We normally reach our peak inventory at this […]
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June 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats

Below are the monthly single family residence stats for June. With the uncertainty around the proposed ballot initiative, the number of sales dropped a bit from the previous month, especially in the 92315 area, which would be the area effected, if the initiative were to pass. We also saw the average Sales price to List […]
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May 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats

Here are last month single family residence Big Bear real estate sales. As normally happens this time of year, the concentration of sales moves away from the slopes and towards the lake. Except for Lakefronts, all areas that we track still sold for over 100% of asking on average, but the average $/sqft was down a […]
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April 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Memorial Day weekend Drone Light Show & Free Concerts

Below are last month’s single family residence stats from the Big Bear MLS. Sales remained strong with fairly large increases in average $/sqft for Lakefronts, Big Bear City, Moonridge, and Sugarloaf. Also, the average sales price remained over 100% of asking price for all areas we track, except Lakefronts. Looking at the long-range forecast, we’re hoping […]

Big Bear Real Estate July 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Hi folks! Below are last month’s Big Bear real estate sold stats for single family residences. I removed one auction property that sold in Big Bear Lake for over $200K of “asking” because it really skewed the numbers misleadingly and pushed the Sales price to List price ratio (SP/LP) over 102%. We normally reach our peak inventory at this […]

Big Bear Real Estate June 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Below are the monthly single family residence stats for June. With the uncertainty around the proposed ballot initiative, the number of sales dropped a bit from the previous month, especially in the 92315 area, which would be the area effected, if the initiative were to pass. We also saw the average Sales price to List […]

Big Bear Real Estate May 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Here are last month single family residence Big Bear real estate sales. As normally happens this time of year, the concentration of sales moves away from the slopes and towards the lake. Except for Lakefronts, all areas that we track still sold for over 100% of asking on average, but the average $/sqft was down a […]

Big Bear Real Estate April 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Memorial Day weekend Drone Light Show & Free Concerts Below are last month’s single family residence stats from the Big Bear MLS. Sales remained strong with fairly large increases in average $/sqft for Lakefronts, Big Bear City, Moonridge, and Sugarloaf. Also, the average sales price remained over 100% of asking price for all areas we track, except Lakefronts. Looking at the long-range forecast, we’re hoping […]

Big Bear Real Estate March 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Redfin prediction As another season at the slopes comes to a close, the Big Bear Real Estate market isn’t showing any signs of slowing down yet. Most areas are still selling above asking price on average, with days on market (DOM) in the 30-45 day range (very short given an average escrow length of about 30 days)! As of […]

Big Bear Real Estate February 2022 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Below are the monthly single family residence statistics from the Big Bear MLS for the month of February. As you can see, we posted huge additional increases pretty much across the board (remember when we got down to only 47 properties in January?). The inventory has gone up a bit to 101 single family residences, but still […]

Big Bear Real Estate December 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Statistics/Inventory by Price Happy New Year! Well, we survived another holiday season up here in Big Bear! With Christmas and New Year’s Day both being on weekends and with some fresh snow thrown in-between for good measure, it was extra crazy up here this year, but that was great for vacation rental owners and other businesses, of course! […]

Big Bear Real Estate What Are the Differences Between Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Real Estate? Update to post from 4/27/2012: One of the questions that we get fairly often is “What are the differences between Big Bear Lake and Lake Arrowhead?” One of the reasons that people sometimes ask this question is probably because they are looking at all kinds of different sites such as Realtor.com, Redfin, or (God forbid) […]

Big Bear Real Estate November 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Opening Day for the Resorts! Sales remain very strong, even with the single family residence inventory already down to only 81 properties in the Big Bear MLS. That’s already almost down to the 62-property historic low that we reached in February of this year. For reference, that’s only about a 1/2 month supply and we would normally be around 500 properties […]

Big Bear Real Estate September 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Inventory With our first dusting of snow already last week, we are well into the fall season already. Besides snow, nothing shows that more than our already plummeting inventory. While inventory normally drops during the fall and winter, we are already down to only 134 active single family residences in the Big Bear MLS! That number should […]

Big Bear Real Estate August 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Below are the stats for last month’s single-family residence sales. As of this morning, the inventory sits at only 195 sfr’s in the Big Bear MLS. A couple people have asked about the few properties that don’t get listed in the Big Bear MLS and you can see them, also, on our website, since we […]

Big Bear Real Estate May 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Here are the Big Bear real estate statistics for last month. As you can see, sales remain very strong, with most areas still selling 3-5% over asking price, on average. As is usual in the Spring, inventory ticked up a bit (but much less than expected at this time of year), to only 172 single family residences […]

Big Bear Real Estate April 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Below are the Big Bear Real Estate stats for the month of April. As you can see, the number of sales and ratio of sales price to list price remained very high; but in general, closings that occurred in April typically opened in either February or March, when inventory was still at record lows. As of today, […]

Big Bear Real Estate March 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Well, another winter season has come to an end (probably the busiest ever for sales and rentals) and things seem to be returning to some sort of normalcy. The Big Bear Real Estate inventory has almost doubled in the past 6 weeks (from 62 to 122 Single Family residences), but it’s still only about 1/4 to 1/3 […]

Big Bear Real Estate February 2021 Big Bear Real Estate Statistics As winter is wrapping up and we get closer to Spring and the closure of the ski resorts for the season, the inventory has ticked up a little bit to 78 single family properties in the Big Bear MLS. This is still only about 25% of where it should be at this time of year, but […]

Big Bear Real Estate December 2020 Big Bear Real Estate Stats The Big Bear real estate market remains insanely hot, with the active single family residence inventory in the Big Bear MLS down to only 65 properties!! The lowest that anyone can remember that number being in at least the last 15 years was 250, so we are currently about 75% under that! With such low inventory, competition […]

Big Bear Real Estate November 2020 Big Bear Real Estate Stats We are coming into the final stretch of 2020, with the second home market remaining incredibly hot. Prices continue to rise and almost all areas are selling at a little over asking price on average. The largest problem we are having in terms of sales right now is the ridiculously low inventory. We are down […]

Big Bear Real Estate October 2020 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Opening Day for Snow Summit!! Activity remains very high in the Big Bear Real Estate market, especially after we received a little over a foot of snow this past weekend and Snow Summit is scheduled to open on November 20th. In addition, the tubing areas are scheduled to open on November 14th and Bear Mountain on November 27th. As I […]

Big Bear Real Estate September 2020 Big Bear Real Estate Stats It was another huge month for Big Bear real estate sales, with a total of 247 single family residences sold. For the first time that we can remember, the average sales price was over asking price in the majority of the areas that we track and the single-family residence inventory is at only about 110 […]

Big Bear Real Estate August 2020 Big Bear Real Estate Statistics/Oktoberest Opens this Weekend! With this crazy summer almost behind us, sales continue at a record pace and the inventory has dropped another 13% from last month to only 146 active single-family residences in the Big Bear MLS! New properties are still coming on the market, but the inventory is selling faster than it is being replenished; so with […]