Davenport Housing Market Update: More Inventory, More Opportunity

Key Points:

  • • Davenport’s Market is Favoring Buyers – Home inventory is increasing, and properties are taking longer to sell, giving buyers more negotiating power.

  • • Florida Homes Are Taking Longer to Sell – The number of homes sitting on the market for 60+ days in Orlando is among the highest in the nation, impacting areas like Davenport.

  • • Home Prices in Davenport Are Slightly Declining – Year-over-year, home prices have dropped slightly, with Champions Gate (-3%), North Davenport (-2%), and South Davenport (-1.3%) seeing the most impact.

  • • Inventory is Rising in All Zip Codes – The number of homes on the market has grown significantly: +36% in North Davenport, +18% in Champions Gate, and +24% in South Davenport.

  • • Short-Term Rental Areas Are Seeing the Most Price Declines – Areas with a higher concentration of short-term rentals, like Champions Gate, are experiencing more price softness due to changing travel trends and tighter investor financing options.

Davenport Real Estate Market Update: Florida Homes Taking Longer to Sell

Polk County listed last year as one of the hottest markets, biggest growth for population in the entire country. Davenport is one of the busiest marketplaces in that entire county. And you have to understand people are moving to Davenport for many reasons that really haven’t changed here in 2025.

You have higher affordability to live there. The location itself sits between Orlando and Tampa. You could get to the beach as fast.

You can watch professional sports teams within an hour drive, and that’s NBA, NFL, or MLB. And for all the naysayers and crash bros across YouTube that are pointing the finger saying Florida’s next to fall, it’s in serious danger, one can overlook the most recent news that just came out from the census this past month saying that Florida is yet again in the top five of all states of the highest net migration. People are still flocking here.

More are coming than are close to 100,000 people in population growth. And yes, it has slowed down since the pandemic era, but that’s really been the case for really all things since the pandemic. But this update is bound to be fascinating because if you’ve been watching this channel, you’ll know that most of my updates about Davenport have been very intriguing.

Signs the Market Favors Buyers in Davenport

Davenport has been swinging to the buyer’s favor at a higher pace than any of the markets in Orlando that I’ve been covering for you. So if you own a home here now, you’re looking to buy one here soon. This is an update you’re not going to want to miss because not only am I going to give you an overview of how all the zip codes in Davenport are doing, I’m going to share with you a deep dive into the area right around champions gate.

So if you’re looking for short-term rentals or you’re curious about selling your particular home, they’re going to know exactly what’s going on. I’m going to shift down south of I-4, which is the corridor of Davenport, where a lot of primary residents flock. A lot of people have bought new construction homes here in the past four years, as there’s been a housing unit explosion, particularly in the south area of Davenport.

And then I’m going to head back up to the established north zip code, which is right along highway 27, right off the Four Corners area, nearest the Disney World. At the end of this video, you’re going to have a very clear understanding of what’s going on. And again, to back up this video, I’m going to break up a chapter.

Breaking Down Davenport Zip Codes

So if you’re only curious in one of these zip codes, you’ll have the good fortune of just going right to that area and know exactly what’s going on. And if you appreciate the hard work and dedication it comes to bringing an update like this, drop down below, smash the thumbs up for me. It’d mean a lot.

Consider subscribing to the channel so you don’t miss any of these great updates on what’s going on in Florida, particularly through the lens of Orlando. Let’s get started. Again, we’re talking about the zip codes in Davenport.

Look at this. So you’re going to have your northern zip code 33897. You’re going to have the Champions Gate zip code 33896

Understanding Davenport’s Key Locations

And you’re going to have the southern most area of Davenport, which is 33837, really borders the I-4 corridor. So let me give you an overlook of what we’re looking at. You have Disney World right here.

You have the round out of the edge of the Orlando Metro area right here. Davenport actually falls outside of the Orlando Metro data. So what’s funny is you’re going to see how this is all shaded out and it’s all bright down here.

That’s because Davenport and the government falls under Lakeland metropolitan area, not under our area. However, I will tell you that we here in Orlando, if you’re looking for a house in Davenport or Hain City, you are most likely working with an Orlando Metro professional. I sell a lot of real estate down here, particularly for the reasons I said in the opener, but take a look at this.

This is something that is really not abated. In some cases gotten worse. This is the home price forecast.

It really is better stated as a measure of if the market is buyer or seller favored. Now, all three zip codes, Champions Gate being the softest. These are some of the strongest buyer favored areas.

If you’re considering the Orlando Metro. Okay. Now I will say it follows that this is also carried over into Osceola County.

Okay. So really the South side of the market, and there could be many reasons for it. There’s just a lot more affordable inventory.

Buyers be able to afford homes in this area for that category. It’s been a stranglehold with higher interest rates. You have a lot more supply coming into this area too.

So that’s one of the other factors that as we look at all the data, you’re going to see things like growing days on market. You’re going to see things like growing unsold inventory. The things that they’re saying about Orlando are overly indexed happening at a higher percentage across the South edge, particularly of the city of Orlando.

Don’t get mad at me in the comments. Every time I say stuff like this, people from these areas, you know, my friends I’ve sold homes. I sold home last month to a person in this Southern area for primary rest.

He got a property 40, 50,000 below what they recently sold for low three hundreds, full solar, beautiful house with water behind house, like four or five years old. You can’t do that for 310,000 anywhere else. And he did great.

So I’m not knocking the area. You know, someone is winning and some people are ultimately just having a harder time when the market does make these shifts, but know that I’m for you either way and can help you no matter what your situation is. Now, next thing we look at is year over year home price change.

Okay. You will notice every zip code in these areas is negative to last year. So there’s all of these areas.

If you look at them are trending and selling off at lower numbers. Okay. Which one’s doing the worst to greatest.

You can see the champion’s gate corridor is at negative 3%. The area up here going towards four corners, the North side running down highway 27 from one 92, eight, nine, seven is at negative 2%. And then you could see the primary res location down here, negative 1.3%. And this is very indicative of what’s going on everywhere on the Orlando Metro.

Inventory Growth in Davenport

The more primary residence, the probably more sustained prices, the more short-term rental affected. It is the more you have a chance of seeing some softness. For instance, Kissimmee right here in three, four, seven, four, seven, old Lake Wilson road reunion, all of these areas right here, had folks call me recently that you’ve been watching my updates.

She’s like, how is my house going to do in this particular area? And you’re going to see that this is where there is a softening in price. And it’s been going on for almost two years. So this is not a recent eight month thing, anything like that.

I would say, if anything, you might see it actually just kind of catch a little tension this year because it has been slipping. We’re going to kind of isolate each of these areas and talk about just how much prices change over that amount of time. You’re going to know that by the end of this video.

Now, next thing we’re looking at is how much has inventory grown in each of these areas since last year, look at this, the area with the most growth up here in the North, 36% change. You have champions gate right here, 18% change. And then down to the South it’s up 24%.

And again, these numbers aren’t actually crazy high when compared with some of the general metro area in some of the greater U S I think the U S is even putting up most of the other States that are much calmer than what you’re hearing with all the raging inventory growth of Texas at four. They’re now coming to a full year cycle where they’re seeing 20, 25% up in a lot of different areas. Now, the only change is these have had really big leaps in the years before this.

So before this year, you know, we’re now seeing, okay, maybe 35% growth in a nine, but last year it was 50 or 70%, 60% some of these areas. So we’re, we’re cresting a little higher off of already high numbers. And today I’m going to talk about where that’s coming from.

Why is it growing? Is a lot of listings come to market or the buyers just can’t afford it or not buying it or whatever. We’re going to figure that out. Let’s take a quick look at price cuts.

You’re going to notice that price cuts are not a high percentage of all the listings at this particular month. Okay. So right here in eight, nine, seven, there’s 15% price reductions, 15% in champions gate and 18.8%. And again, I will say looking at history in the past few months, these are actually coming down in the past 90 days.

So sellers are feeling a little confident, okay. Or maybe there’s psychological barriers to cutting price. Like I’m going to wait for the election to pass.

I’m going to wait for a winter season to pass because that many people are shopping. So I’m going to reduce during this phase. So there’s a little bit kind of a holding pattern.

This is seasonal to some degree. I expect some of this to change. We go into 2025 further into the year.

Next chart we’re looking at across all zip codes. How fast is it taking to sell a house in these areas? It’s now 32% longer in the north champions gate areas taking about 28% longer to sell than a year prior. And down in the South, the shortest gap against last year is three, three, three, seven with 22.3% longer timeframe to sell.

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That’s all list your home for just 3% and start packing. Now this next chart we’re looking at is one of my favorite indicators to give you an idea of what’s coming next. This is year over year median list price.

Shifts in Median List Price Across Davenport Zip Codes

This is a sign of you’re going to have possible future negative price erosion into the future. Because what this is telling us is that for instance, right here in champions gate homeowners this past month put their homes on the market at a 9% lower amount median than they were a year ago. Okay.

So again, this is not the sale price. This is the leading indicator of saying it’s going in the market lower than last year, by the way, historically, most markets around Orlando, they don’t go negative to last year. Why? Because most sellers do the same thing.

They bring the house, they look at it, they compare it as they’re about ready to sell it. They look and say, I’m going to ask a little more than the person who just sold and his home likely sold for a little bit higher than the year prior. So ultimately overall, usually the asking price is always positive territory.

That’s not been the case. Now, by the way, some of these were actually worse recently. Take a look.

And this is kind of, look what I’m saying. This is three, three, eight, nine, six. This is champions gate.

This is the zero line in the history going back to 2017. You can see that every month, every time you would set an asking price, it’s in the positive. It’s above this line, but look what took place here early back in 2024.

This is be February, March timeframe. It slipped negative for the first time. And now what has happened since, well, if you look at the timeframe going back from now against two years ago, this marketplace is around three percentage points or 4% points depends on which months you look at it in negative territory.

So if you bought a house in this particular market, depending on where you are in eight, nine, six in 2022, you might be facing a asking price below what you paid. Okay. At this season.

Now you have to understand this is an entire index of a zip code of homes. Okay. So some of these homes are above performing better than the average.

Some are performing worse. So while some of these homes are giving back three or 4% negative against two years ago, some of them might be eight, 9%. And that is a reality for some sellers here.

Now look at this is the same chart to the North. Okay. So this is highway 27 to four corners, eight, nine, seven, their median asking price.

Look at it’s just toyed with the zero line. That’s why this marketplace probably out of the three has probably one of the lowest price givebacks you can see, look, it went way down when the pandemic started and then it raged the opposite direction. Okay.

It was really weird. So like, as soon as we locked down everything and we came back open again in the summer, the regular residential market went on fire almost immediately in 2020. Okay.

Still kind of a head scratcher. See, Hey, what’s going to happen. But STR did the opposite short-term rental market areas were like, we don’t know if we can get tenants and occupants in our properties.

So there was a huge question mark time period that these marketplaces suffered because there was so much uncertainty that some people are just going to unload them in 2020 before there was actually a known path to make your money because there were a lot of different restrictions in place, whether or not you could actually travel, if you could stay in these places. So things didn’t really feel more open until 2021. And that’s when a lot of the stimulus had already been passed.

That’s when a lot of people had corporate money to then spend from PPP and all this other kind of stuff, that money obviously found its way into residential market and raged the opposite direction. So you can see it went as high here, the peak, there was an 85% increase in asking price in February, 2022. This by the way, was the end, like middle of 2022 financing terms for these particular markets got so difficult for buyers that you only had cash buyers because then at that point, if you were going to mortgage this, it became complicated.

It became like the math doesn’t really work. And you can see, look at that in February of 2021, the median asking price for the zip code was $195,000. And then a year later in February, it was $357,000.

Interesting, interesting, interesting. So what do you have now? You have STR kind of, kind of returning to an imbalance. And so a lot of homeowners now are coming to grips with the fact that like, okay, I bought in in 2019 at 600,000.

Now my place is worth 1.2, but really they can only get one nil for it. So they’ve actually lost a couple hundred thousand in what they could have gotten January of 2022. And they’re grappling with the notion of like, I’m not going to get that much, but you’re still getting a lot more than 600.

And again, some people are on the backside of that where they bought in later. So if you buy in 2022 or 2023, I’m not dooming you. I’m just saying, if you look at the math now and I don’t advise it, steady the course, build your property up, make it make a lot of money, sell if you have to, but understand you have to have a very good agent.

Someone could actually attract an immense amount of value around these changing circumstances. And yes, I do work this market. Hey, it’s me interrupting myself.

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I’m going to show you a couple of key highlights. So if you live in these areas, you’re looking to buy here, you know exactly what’s going on. We’re going to start with three, three, eight, three, seven.

Deep Dive: Davenport’s Southernmost Zip Code (33837)

And I thought this was particularly fascinating in the dynamic I just described, because this zip code most likely has the highest months of supply in the entire Orlando Metro. I don't think any other area is eight months plus than this one, but look what that correlates to at sale price. The month prior you had sellers that close that month. That means they were probably put in a contract in August, the August closings, the sellers gave back 8% of price, which is the lowest number of concession at close to get out. So essentially you saw what I showed you three, four months of declining dollar volume, which just means that all the sellers out there looking for a buyer are competing hard for the ones that are there. And ultimately look what happens. 33837 (Davenport) Active Inventory

Active Inventory

Now look at this. You can see here, we have a 10% year over year, 525 active listings, but look what’s happened. It’s actually descending over the past three or four months, which is good because that’s not something that’s happened in the past year for the past year.

This has been pretty much raging growth. Look at pre pandemic, what we call normal, this area would ping around 300 units. And now it’s at 500 units.

And again, I haven’t looked, you might say, Jared, that’s like, you know, 70% more homes than they used to have on the market here. Understand there’s more housing units here. This is a different marketplace than it was back in 2017 and 18.

There’s more population here. So you’re gonna have more homes to sell, but it is elevated. We’re going to take a look at just what is causing this a buyer’s back in a way, or is it just a deluge of new listings, any changing marketplace? You’re always looking for supply and demand sellers, bringing homes, buyers, buying homes.

This right here is new pending sales. This is the measure of homes being taken under contract. Keep in mind that even all these homes going to contract 15% of them are going to fall out and actually not close, but this is close up to a leading indicators we can get to give you an understanding of what’s going to happen in the future.

Remember we have 525 homes in the market here, a hundred of them went under contract in November, which was still off of last year. Look at this negative, negative, negative, negative 2024. There was a problem selling off and keeping up with 2023.

And I will say the interesting thing about this is even though this is unusual. Okay. A lot of the marketplace, uh, around Orlando Metro, they’re positive for the last few months for buyer activity, some months, um, you know, back in October, everybody lost steam.

Look at this. It was 16% than 25% hurricane Milton came through affected everybody’s pending volume, but understand this, look, look at this. This is 2020, 2021, 2022.

It’s up here. It’s up here. Boom, 2024.

This is a deceleration in the market. Buyers are not there to the same degree that they’ve been. This is what causes the unsold inventory to balloon past 500 units.

Um, however, you can see this is an uptrend recently. Okay. Still not against last year, still negative.

Um, and I will say, um, compared to the rest of Orlando Davenport did better last year for Davenport to hang these numbers last year and not have this have fallen down here as early as last year is a testimony to it’s resilient. It still was attracting buyers when the rest of Orlando, most of Orlando, they had their 2022 up here and then 2023 fell. And then 2024 made up ground Davenport kind of doing the opposite.

And again, this, there’s a kind of a natural cyclical nature to a market. If it overheats and over indexes the rest of the area, it’s going to have its breather. And I would tell you that in all likelihood, this is going to follow a 2025.

That’s going to be probably a little bit stronger than what you’ve just seen in the past five or six months. It’s just a natural kind of back and forth that takes place. So my advice is sellers hang on.

I think you got some better days ahead here. New listings, take a look. It is declining against the last year and a half.

Okay. Which is good. You know, if your buyers are pulling back, you don’t want to keep burying it with inventory, but look at the numbers, the new listing volume, negative 20, negative 30, negative 18.

So even while there’s less buyers, there is less sellers. And ultimately this just becomes a smaller market. So people are like, Oh, is this crashing? They’re only thinking of it by, you know, considering inventory stacking up.

What happens is if you have less sellers pushing supply in less buyers buying the market size on both sides in this market is smaller. Buyers and sellers are just less active. Now again, there’s a cyclical nature of the marketplace.

I think you are going to turn into 2025 and see more people in eight, three, seven saying, I’m going to get in the market and I’m going to sell. I’m going to tell you there’s a lot of new construction competition in this particular market. This is not for the faint of heart.

And you have to have a great agent knows exactly how to make sure you position not to be ahead of the other 500 homes, which unto itself is a feat, but you’ve got to compete against their builders who are saying, I’m going to give $25,000 in buy downs, or I’m gonna give you a 4% or straight when the resale, the used home down the street, you’re going to have to get a 7% or straight. Look at this cash as a percentage of closed sales, except for a couple moments. And back here in 2025, you have the lowest cash figures recently in this area going back seven years.

Again, that is kind of what we’re seeing all over the market. But look at this last month, 47% less cash buying three months ago, 50% less cash buyers. So cash buyers are less than one in 10 of the buying public in this particular area.

Fascinating. Okay. So if the, if you’re buying in the narrative, I can’t get a good price in my area because I’m inundated with investor buyers.

And a lot of people are claiming wall streets buying off. Well, here’s your proof folks. They might be building a neighborhood in your backyard to rent out, but they sure as heck aren’t buying against you in the resale market.

It is all finance buyers.

Closed Inventory

And here we have closed sales. Look at it rage through the pandemic last five or six months. It’s kind of amazing to see this kind of weak volume and to see that your active inventory is just flattening out. You know, I have a feeling that the cancellation withdrawal rate, people just failing to sell and exiting the market is probably very high here. That’s probably the other thing keeping the active inventory tame.

Okay. I do not think if we see a resurgence and new listings that you are going to see inventory stay below 500 units. Um, you’re going to see a lot more homes possibly on the market, but this is a small market.

You have to go way back here, like 2018, 2019 to see this size market. And once again, it’s a bigger market. There’s a lot more people involved, but there’s not a lot of them buying and selling homes right now in this area.

It’s more of a muted, smaller marketplace going on. All right. Ready to have your minds blown.

This next series of slides is going to be crazy. Look at this. So you had your peak market back here in 2022, no surprise, 415,000.

Look what the market’s done. It softened around the gates. Oh my gosh, the sky is falling.

And then it came back. And remember this whole time, everybody’s been, you know, saying that the whole world’s coming to an end, but we’ve literally been sliding now for two and a half years. Okay.

Um, look at this. You’re posting some negatives and some positives the entire year on a balance. It’d probably be as straight of a line as you can get.

And that is interesting, right? Because if you watch all the charts I just showed you, and I didn’t show you this and I said, what do you think’s happening You say it’s falling off a cliff. Well, it’s not. And again, that’s just because it’s just a smaller economy.

Everything looks kind of crazy on the graphs, but it’s fewer sellers with fewer buyers. They’re meeting on a number and the seller’s not necessarily making more buyers, not necessarily paying more. I will say that something we can’t measure on here though, be interesting.

How much is the seller giving back and all these transactions that could be and it most likely is. Um, so for instance, okay, I’m selling comparable to what I was selling a year ago, but I’m now giving $15,000 to the buyer. Okay.

So I’m giving a 5% discount, but it’s not underwritten in these numbers. Again, I’m not trying to be kooky or question the data. I’m just saying it’s something that’s probably happening at a, at a growing rate that we don’t know about because it doesn’t exist in the data.

Take a look at this months of supply. This is the ultimate measure of how fast all of your inventory would sell. If you stop listing new houses, it would take 4.3 months to sell.

Now, by the way, the entire marketplace in Orlando is around 3.7 to 3.9, something like that. A little elevated for Orlando, but it’s not crazy high. This is what we consider to be a balanced market.

If you consider the aggregate of all the three zip codes, I would imagine this one’s probably faring the best. Maybe the Northern zip code up 27 is doing equally as well. We’ll have to find out, but let’s point out, look where it was a year ago, 3.4 and it held on to that.

Three, four is a tighter market. 4.3 does feel a little loose. Look at history.

This marketplace spends a lot of time between three and four months of supply. So when you’re kind of punching above four, this is a little bit higher than usual. I’m going back seven years, but not by much.

Deep Dive: Davenport’s Northern Zip Code (33897)

Active Inventory

Look at the active inventory. So it looks like it just came down in November. Again, sometimes seasonally in the winter, you see less listings out there. People will even pull them off the market. However, I have a feeling we’re going to see that there was some of this election surge that took place that took a little edge off of that.

Look at the past, the entire pre-pandemic history, there was around 130, 140 homes in the market at any given time. Right now there’s 259 homes and it has been elevated for a long time. It’s about a year and a half, two years.

Now, again, just like I said before, there has been a growth of housing units. I’d be surprised. This one probably has a decent amount of housing units added in the past five years.

I wouldn’t say it’s as busy as maybe champions gate and the other zip code, but there’s going to be more supply, more population. So this isn’t a surprise. All things considered, this might be, you know, two 59 might be equivalent to what, you know, one 61 used to be back in, you know, early 2019 considering per capita, how many homes are there actually to sell as a percentage probably isn’t far different than seeing these numbers at the point we’re at now, but let’s find out where this is coming from.

Is this just buyers backing away or sellers? Let’s look at the pendings, boom, pendings. Look at this last two years. This is kind of what we saw in the first zip code where it’s just falling off.

But however, look, there have been some positive months recently, but they’re against an overshaded by some big negatives, negative 42%, negative 41, negative 32, but much like the other zip code buyers have not been super aggressive here in the past year. And it’s definitely settling. This is a cycle of the lowest amount of pending volume, even against history.

It’s not even lateral to what we used to do in 17, 18, 19. It is down. Again, we already know why by our affordability is off short-term rental financing, second home financing, harder to get higher costs.

And again, it has to make sense for these properties to turn over. If the income doesn’t meet the goal of the investor versus what their loan costs are, it knocks them out of the running. So you do have a little bit of dementia, but let’s look at listings.

Is there a lot of listings coming to the market here? Boom. It’s fallen off a little bit lately. So you had negative 36%, negative 34%, negative 27% August.

You have less buyers. The marketplace is just a little slower. It’s a smaller economy.

Okay. But look at this 37 homes hitting the market. November is the lowest on a seven year trajectory right now.

Sellers are not selling. If they do not have to, that’s all there is to it. I look at median sale price this past month, median sale price fell to 375,000.

It represents a negative 14%. Now again, the truth is in the middle of the line. Okay.

You have these highs like last month, it was 425. This month is 375. It’s like a 10% swing.

You can’t look at the data that way. The data is, it’s looking at all the numbers together. If you step back and you look going back July of 2023, it was $460,000 the month before that $447,000.

The truth is the market’s probably in the high threes. So if you look at this on a trend, where is it at? It’s somewhere in here, which means this is very visibly declining market price wise. Okay.

Good opportunities for buyers. Sellers need to be more precise depending on what they have. For instance, I’m helping a condo owner in here sell right now.

There’s 36 homes on the market in their community. There’s like two under contract. They sell one, two or three a month.

So there’s like certain months they’re registering two years worth of inventory. Okay. So that’s a time where you’re going to have a lot of competition.

People are going to be looking for the best value in that neighborhood when they got so much to look at, because they’re going to glaze over. Okay. We’ve got 35 homes to choose from where you live, but then a mile down the road, you might have a neighborhood where you’re one of two or one of three, and it’s a high appealing area.

It’s going to be a different set of circumstances, but let’s look at month of supply of inventory. This is the measure of how fast it would take to sell all the homes off. If you stop listing new ones and look at this, it’s 7.5, 7.6 months, and it’s way higher than history.

Okay. The highest it’s ever been in history was around 2.9, three months. It actually hit 3.1 in December.

This has been a fairly hot market at all times going back seven years. So people would pop in here, buy a home. I don’t feel like it’s ever raged in price.

Just feels like for whatever hits the market, there’s a buyer for it. But right now it is up there. Okay.

Deep Dive: Champions Gate Zip Code (33896)

Active Inventory

All right. My friends, last zip code, three, three, eight, nine, six last, but not least champions gate. Now this is an area highly characterized by short-term rental.

Okay. Not that there’s no permanent residents living here, half the year kind of residents. There’s a lot of that too, but there are a lot of furnished homes.

This, a lot of this area was really built to cater to renting your home out year after year and doing it all year round on shorter terms. Okay. Look at this.

This is the active inventory. It’s up 10% over last year, 316 homes. Look at pre pandemic 150 to 200 units.

It’s about 30% higher than that. Here’s the deal. There is way more housing units.

Okay. So if I showed you the population on a chart, if I showed you housing units for the zip code, which I don’t have time to do, it’s off the charts in the past four years. Okay.

It’s per capita. This isn’t too crazy, but it is elevated. We’re going to see just what that means for people who are looking to buy here.

There’s, there’s definitely opportunity in the zip code. All right. Next is new listings.

Look at the year. Half the year was positive and half the year was negative. And that’s kind of what it looks like for the last couple of years, kind of running in the same range, um, bottoming around 40 units a month and going up to around 80 units a month.

And ultimately that’s where this market has lived for the past three or four years, but our buyers buying the listings and ultimately is been soft, particularly lately. Look at this. So if you’re putting in 40 to 80 new listings a month, but you’re selling 38 or 22, 22 units in a single month, they were 55% against prior year, which was a loan.

It’s a hurricane cycle folks. It’s the way it goes. Then you’re back to 40 units.

So this particular market is selling between 30, 40, 50 units. And obviously on the selling side, they’re adding more than that. Let’s take a look at how much inventory we actually have when we consider it against absorption.

Boom, there we are the highest months of supply. The strongest buyers market in all of Davenport is three, three, eight, nine, six by a hair 8.1. I think this is just a little ahead of the neighboring zip code off of 27 to four corners, but it’s up 21%. You can see, look in history.

It was running a little higher than most of Orlando. Okay. So when it’s teasing the four month mark, a lot of Orlando, we were hotter than that, like three, 3.2 during these years.

Um, so this runs elevated anyways, but right now it’s double more than double the rest of the Orlando Metro in terms of it being a strong buyer favored market. One thing I want to show you dollar volume. This is the cumulative amount of the entire sales.

Now, again, on one hand, you have less sales. On the other hand, those sales should be way higher dollar amounts per house than back here. Right? When you agree, you’re like, man, these houses in 2018 were so cheap.

Okay. Well, you’re stacking them up at a much higher price. So maybe they’re keeping up wrong.

Look at this dollar volume in November. Look at this. The lowest.

If you exclude the pandemic, you have to go way back to like February of 2019 to find a $10 million month. Because back here we were holding 30 million for several months straight. Okay.

So again, you have a cumulative effect of a softening price, less transactions, interesting times again, like anything cyclical. I think this might spring back. I think you’re going to probably see a little bit busier spring because usually when people have been watching an area that they haven’t moved in the area and bought it a lot of times that those, those decisions are made both sides of the coin, more sellers and more buyers, um, going into spring, the much of what this data suggests, just because it’s been a little bit below, you know, where it typically would be.

Oh, this is a fascinating chart. I didn’t show in any of the other updates. This is the percentage of what people are getting at sale.

Closed Inventory

And I thought this was particularly fascinating in the dynamic I just described, because this zip code most likely has the highest months of supply in the entire Orlando Metro. I don’t think any other area is eight months plus than this one, but look what that correlates to at sale price. The month prior you had sellers that close that month.

That means they were probably put in a contract in August, the August closings, the sellers gave back 8% of price, which is the lowest number of concession at close to get out. So essentially you saw what I showed you three, four months of declining dollar volume, which just means that all the sellers out there looking for a buyer are competing hard for the ones that are there. And ultimately look what happens.

The buyers, if you’re looking in champions gate, there’s a chance where you’re pulling five, six, 7% off of price. You have very good, strong negotiation positions in areas like this.

Conclusion: Where is the Davenport Market Heading?

Davenport’s housing market remains dynamic, and the trends we’re seeing today could shift as we move further into 2025. The balance of supply and demand, interest rates, and economic conditions will all play a role in determining whether this market leans further in favor of buyers or starts stabilizing for sellers. Whether you’re looking to buy, sell, or invest in Davenport, staying informed is key to making the best decision.

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