HOME PRICES IN APTOS, CA - REAL ESTATE MARKET REPORT
Aptos, CA is located in Santa Cruz County between Capitola and La Selva Beach & Watsonville. This 95003 area code consists of Aptos and the smaller communities within it: Rio del Mar, Seascape, Seacliff.
Home prices in Aptos have a wide range because Aptos has ocean front multi-million dollar beach homes, small beach cabins, mountain estates, horse property, vineyards, really something for everyone. Aptos is on the Southern end of Santa Cruz County, closer to Monterey and is a bit reminiscent of Carmel as a sleepy beach town with lovely properties. People from places like Modesto, Stockton, Sacramento love to escape the heat in the summer months in their areas and flock to the beaches of Aptos and Nature's Air Condition: the fog.
Let's take a look at Home Prices in Aptos, CA over the past 2 years:
Graph of Median Home Prices in Aptos, Rio Del Mar/Seascape, Seacliff, CA 2008-2009
As you can see in the graph above home prices in Aptos have gone down fairly consistently from the beginning of 2008 and about bottomed out in January of 2009 and since then have started to increase monthly. The median home price for Aptos, Seacliff, Seascape/Rio Del Mar the entire year of 2009 was $659,167. For 2008 the median home price for these areas was $723,833.
Graph of # of homes sold in Aptos, Rio del Mar/Seascape/Seacliff 2008-2009
The graph above illustrates the increase in the number of homes sold in Aptos since the beginning of 2009. The drop in median home prices has resulted in more people being able to afford homes in the Aptos area and more homes selling. In 2008 there were 188 homes sold in Aptos and in 2009, 201 homes were sold. Demand for homes has begun to increase in Aptos leading to a likely gradual rise in median home prices here.
For more detailed information about home prices in a specific area or price range in Santa Cruz County contact me. Here are some other posts I have written about home prices in other parts of Santa Cruz County:
* All information and graphs from Clarus Market Metrics and ProMLSListings
Written by Jessica Wallace, Santa Cruz Realtor
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