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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 […]
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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 […]
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February 2020 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Big Announcement!!

Hi folks! Below are the monthly Big Bear real estate stats for February. The average sales price was up big-time across the board from our last stats for December!! The inventory has gone down slightly in the Big Bear MLS from 337 single-family residences (does not include condos or vacant land) in January to 327 […]
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March 2019 Big Bear Real Estate Stats

Below are the Big Bear MLS single-family residence stats for the month of March. It’s that wonderful time of year when both the slopes and the Lake are open, so it’s a great time to visit! The Lake is up almost another foot and a half since our last email. Even though the creeks are […]

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 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 […]

Big Bear Real Estate February 2020 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Big Announcement!! Hi folks! Below are the monthly Big Bear real estate stats for February. The average sales price was up big-time across the board from our last stats for December!! The inventory has gone down slightly in the Big Bear MLS from 337 single-family residences (does not include condos or vacant land) in January to 327 […]

Big Bear Real Estate March 2019 Big Bear Real Estate Stats Below are the Big Bear MLS single-family residence stats for the month of March. It’s that wonderful time of year when both the slopes and the Lake are open, so it’s a great time to visit! The Lake is up almost another foot and a half since our last email. Even though the creeks are […]

Big Bear Real Estate November 2018 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/The Snow is Falling!! Hi folks! Here are last month’s Big Bear Real Estate statistics. As of this morning, the inventory has dropped to 447 single-family residences in the Big Bear MLS, along with a handful of condos. If you click on the link for the MLS, you’ll see that we switched our idx providers to a more user-friendly […]

Big Bear Real Estate October 2018 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Slopes Open Tomorrow!! It’s that time of year already! Snow Summit opens tomorrow and Bear Mountain is scheduled to open for weekends only until Dec.7th, starting next Friday. Below are last month’s Big Bear real estate statistics. It was a busy month for what is usually one of the slower months of the year, but keep in mind […]

Big Bear Real Estate September 2018 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Live It Up this Weekend With the beautiful color of changing leaves and our first dusting of snow at the higher elevations last weekend, it’s definitely beginning to feel like fall in Big Bear! As we normally mention at this time of year, we are at the point where inventory is still relatively high (503 single-family residences in the Big […]

Big Bear Real Estate August 2018 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Hot Dawgz & Handrails Hi folks, Below are the Big Bear real estate numbers for the last full month of summer. Even though summer is almost over, the market is remaining hot, with the busiest September we can remember in our 11 years as Realtors up here. They are always adding more events so that spring and fall aren’t […]

Big Bear Real Estate April 2018 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/YTD Price Break-down With the summer season quickly approaching, I thought I would send out a quick breakdown of the properties that have sold so far, since the beginning of the year. As usual, the vast majority of homes sold were in the $500K and under range. That’s usually the range that most people are able to afford […]

Big Bear Real Estate November 2017 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Resorts Open this Weekend!! Here are last month’s statistics for the Big Bear Real Estate market. The inventory has continued to drop and, as of this morning, there are only 309 Single Family Residences left on the market! This is lower than we typically see even at the lowest point of the year (in Spring). At this rate, I […]

Big Bear Real Estate October 2017 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/CA Market Forecast Hi folks! As we are almost up to the beginning of the Holiday Season, we are down to only 342 Single-family residences left on the market in the Big Bear MLS. As we have discussed in the past, the inventory normally starts to drop after summer, but when combined with the finalization of the Aspen […]

Big Bear Real Estate September 2017 Big Bear Real Estate Stats It’s been a little while because we were gone last month on a cross-country trip to visit family, but here are the most recent statistics for Big Bear real estate single family sales. Since the acquisition of our local resorts by Aspen was finalized in early August, our inventory has dropped over 35%! There are […]

Big Bear Real Estate July 2017 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Aspen Acquisition Finalized!! Hi folks! Here are the monthly stats for Big Bear real estate for the month of July. Sales prices continue to rise and are expected to do so even more, especially with the recent purchase of our local resorts by Aspen/KSL. Below is a link to an interesting graph from Trulia, which shows that, in […]

Big Bear Real Estate June 2017 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/What’s Up this Weekend As summer kicks into full gear, we are currently at 538 Single family residences on the market. Last month, there were a total of 147 sold properties and another 207 in escrow (Pending/Back-up). As prices continue to rise closer to the Lake and slopes, the more distant areas are increasing even more, with Big Bear […]

Big Bear Real Estate May 2017 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/New MLS auto-emails Here are last month’s Big Bear Real Estate statistics. Sales continued strong for the last full month of Spring and the average $/sqft remained elevated in Big Bear Lake and Moonridge following the Aspen and Rathbun Creek/Moonridge Redevelopment project announcements. Area #Sales Avg. Sale Avg.$/sqft SP/LP DOM BBC 30 $235,298 $193.33 99.5% 87 BBL-general 17 […]

Big Bear Real Estate April 2017 “Sold” and “Pending/Back-up” Properties Lists/Happy Mother’s Day!! Hi folks! After receiving our annual “Mother’s Day snow” this past Sunday (the early May/late season snow that we receive almost every year), the weather is warming back up to match the housing market. Late April was unseasonably warm (both the weather and the market). Part of this appears to be caused by the increasing […]

Big Bear Real Estate March 2017 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/Aspen Acquisition!! Hi folks! Here are last month’s single family residence statistics for the Big Bear area. As usual for the last month of winter, the emphasis was closer to the slopes and the $/sqft in Moonridge jumped to almost $260/sqft! There were 4 shallow-water lakefronts that sold (great news, since that particular sub-category hasn’t moved much […]

Big Bear Real Estate February 2017 Big Bear Stats/Moonridge Improvement Project/New HGTV Show Here are the Big Bear real estate stats for February 2017. Although it was a short month, the number of sales remained relatively high. As usually happens at this time of year, there were significantly more sales closer to the slopes than closer to the Lake (the $/sqft on the one lakeview property was considerably […]

Big Bear Real Estate January 2017 Big Bear “Sold” and “Pending/Back-up” Properties/NEW SEARCH FORMAT January officially went down as the snowiest January on record up here (surpassing the previous record in 1979) and the record snow has brought record crowds. That’s not great news for traffic, but it’s fantastic news for vacation rentals, the lake level (up 30″ already!), real estate sales, and prices. Last month there were 100 […]

Big Bear Real Estate September 2016 Big Bear Real Estate Stats/What’s Up for Halloween Weekend Here are last month’s stats for Big Bear real estate in terms of single-family residences (cabins and homes). As normally happens in the fall, attention starts turning toward the areas around the slopes (Summit Estates and Moonridge), so it’s a great time of year to buy closer to the Lake (or list closer to the […]