by Calculated Risk on 12/10/2015 07:05:00 PM

Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, the Producer Price Index for November from the BLS. The consensus is for no changed in prices, and a 0.1% increase in core PPI.

• Also at 8:30 AM, Retail sales for November will be released. The consensus is for retail sales to increase 0.3% in November, and to increase 0.3% ex-autos.

• At 10:00 AM, Manufacturing and Trade: Inventories and Sales (business inventories) report for October. The consensus is for a 0.1% increase in inventories.

• Also at 10:00 AM, University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index (preliminary for December). The consensus is for a reading of 92.0, up from 91.3 in November.

Sacramento: During the recession, I started following the Sacramento market to look for changes in the mix of houses sold (equity, REOs, and short sales). For a few years, not much changed. But in 2012 and 2013, we saw some significant changes with a dramatic shift from distressed sales to more normal equity sales.

This data suggests healing in the Sacramento market and other distressed markets are showing similar improvement.  Note: The Sacramento Association of REALTORS® started breaking out REOs in May 2008, and short sales in June 2009.

In November, total sales were up  11.5% from November 2014, and conventional equity sales were up 13.9% compared to the same month last year.

In November, 8.3% of all resales were distressed sales. This was up from 7.0% last month, and down from 11.5% in November 2014.  Distressed sales happen all year, but equity sales have a seasonal pattern - so this pushed up the percent of distressed sales in the Winter.

The percentage of REOs was at 3.7% in October, and the percentage of short sales was 4.6%.

Here are the statistics.

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This graph shows the percent of REO sales, short sales and conventional sales. Distressed sales are so small, the font doesn't fit.

There has been a sharp increase in conventional (equity) sales that started in 2012 (blue) as the percentage of distressed sales declined sharply.

Active Listing Inventory for single family homes decreased 28.4% year-over-year (YoY) in October.  This was the seventh consecutive monthly YoY decrease in inventory in Sacramento (a big recent change).

Cash buyers accounted for 20.2% of all sales (frequently investors).

Summary: This data suggests a more normal market with fewer distressed sales, more equity sales, and less investor buying.