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Alabama Real Estate Sales in March 2015 on Par with Last Year; Housing Starts Up 5.8%

Posted: Monday, May 04, 2015 at 1:04 PM CDT

Mobile, AL -- (SBWire) -- 05/04/2015 --Alabama real estate sales in March 2015 were unaffected from last year. In line with seasonal developments, real estate sales enhanced by 32.4% or 82 units from the preceding month.

New real estate construction database has elevated 12.2% from March 2014. Almost 4 out of 5 metropolitan has experienced growth in inventory levels from last March 2014 with the exclusion of Montgomery that faced a downfall of 3.8 pct.

Alabama's metropolitan markets in March show 5.5 month of fresh house supply, which is up 12-percent from last March's 5 months but positively down 24% from 7.2 months last month.

According to the reports of Sam Winter & Co., "March statewide property starts elevated by 5.8% from March 2014 that enhanced 3.2% in the preceding month. 2014 real estate sales were down 2.0 pct. Property starts were up 7.8% in 2013 and 6.5 percent in 2012. Statewide construction permits in March 2015 were increased by 14.6% from March 2014. 2014 construction permits were down 0.8 percent. Whereas construction permits were up 5.6 percent in 2013 and 8.4% in 2012.

Around 21 out of 27 homebuilder organizations (78Percent - up from 44Percent in Feb 2015) recorded increases in building permits in the preceding month while 14 organizations (52 Percent - up from 30 Percent in Feb 2015) recorded increases in property starts from last month. While 16 organizations (59 Percent - up from 56 Percent in Feb 2015) experienced a rise from their March 2014 property starts. All these data shows that a huge boost will be experienced by the Alabama housing market in the near future.

About Sam Winter & Company, Inc.
Sam Winter & Company, based in Fairhope, AL, is one of the significant residential and industrial real estate business. The firm provides the best-in broker and advisory solutions for real estate property purchasers to explore for houses within the beach sides of AL such as for instance Mobile, Daphne, Orange beach, Fairhope, and Spanish fort.

For more information and other media related inquiries, please contact:
City: Mobile
State: Alabama
Country: USA
Contact Name: Green Circle Agency
Contact Email: howdy@greencircleagency.com
Complete Address: P.O. Box 1085 Fairhope, AL
Zip Code: 36533
Contact Phone: 800-773-6503
Website: http://www.samwinter.com