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OC Home Prices Slip to $400,000

Orange County’s median home price fell another $20,000 to $400,000 in November, the lowest price the area’s seen in more than five years.

The median price of an OC home was $400,000 in November, a 4.8% decline from October, according to La Jolla-based DataQuick Information Systems, a unit of Canada’s MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates.

Median prices here are down about 31% from a year earlier and are off 38% from their all-time high in June 2007. Prices in the county haven’t been this low since May 2003.

Sales volumes in OC increased 39% from a year earlier, with 2,177 home sales in November. Sales here were down 23% from October’s totals.

Foreclosure resales,where a foreclosure had occurred at some point in the prior year,were 44% of the county’s total sales in November, according to DataQuick. That’s up from 39% in October.

The median price of a Southern California home was $285,000 in November, a 5% drop from October and a 35% decrease from a year ago.

Southland sales in November were up 27% from a year ago. Foreclosed homes represented about 55% of all Southland sales in November, compared to about 19% a year ago.

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Mark Mueller
Mark Mueller
Mark is the former Editor-in-Chief and current Community Editor of the Orange County Business Journal, one of the premier regional business newspapers in the country. He’s the fifth person to hold the editor’s position in the paper’s long history. He oversees a staff of about 15 people. The OCBJ is considered a must-read for area business executives. The print edition of the paper is the primary source of local news for most of the Business Journal’s subscribers, which includes most of OC’s major corporate and community players. Mark’s been with the paper since 2005, and long served as the real estate reporter for the paper, breaking hundreds of commercial and residential real estate stories. He took on the editor’s position in 2018.

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