Looking at one month of foreclosure activity for Ventura County shows a different skew than the longer term trend of the quarterly reports of the last few years.

Foreclosure activity for March on the monthly graph shows an increase over February. Compare that foreclosure activity to the 1st quarter results for 2011 and you’ll see some fluctuation but an overall downward trend for the last 18 months.

Real estate activity for Ventura, Camarillo and Oxnard comprises two elements: Sold prices and the number of homes sold. Check out the following charts  and data – Sold prices of Single Family Homes is up slightly whereas the number of homes sold in Camarillo has jumped!

Sold prices – Single family homes in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo:

Sold prices from the quarterly perspective is rather flat line and turning downward. Whereas, there is a small swing upward from February to March.

• Quarterly graph
• 12 month graph

Sold prices – Condos in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo:

Sold prices from the quarterly perspective is trending downward for all 3 cities and especially so for Camarillo that rolled over since December 2010.

• Quarterly graph
• 12 month graph

Numbers sold – Single family homes in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo:

The number of homes sold on the quarterly perspective overall is downward. But when you look closeup at the 12 month graph, Camarillo is  screaming  up!

• Quarterly graph
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