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Condos (May 16, 2007)	Resales			New Construction *
	Active	List Price	DOMP	Active	List Price	DOMP
Fairfax	1,382	$321K	76	83	$612K	111
Loudoun	342	$297K	103	41	$376K	148
Prince William	271	$300K	92	78	$351K	151
Arlington	377	$398K	71	61	$800K	85
Alexandria	455	$355K	97	22	$548K	115
Total	2,827			285
* New construction data is notoriously unreliable in the MLS

The Post is reporting a 3.4 year backlog of condos for sale in the entire region according to Delta Associates, an Alexandria real estate and consulting firm. Ouch!

While collecting data this morning, I found the following for Fairfax county:

Fairfax County (May 17, 2007)	Resales
	Active	List Price	DOMP
Single Family Detached	3,331	$823K	99
Single Family Attached	1,688	$452K	68
Condos	1.385	$320K	77
Total	6,404	$616K	86

Several of my readers have asked if I could break down the current aggregate data I collect by housing type and include the jurisdictions listed above (and more). I wish I could. It is just too time consuming. There are new monthly reports published by the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors® on their website that does a pretty good job presenting all the jurisdictions by housing type. The reports are usually available by the 15th of the month for the prior month activity. For Fairfax County in April, only 224 units were sold from an inventory of 1,436, about a 15% absorption rate. Fairfax County may be fairing a bit better than the region as a whole. If we had better new construction data from the MLS it may look much worse.