Which Neighborhoods Have the Fastest Price Reductions?
Here’s a fun set of data. Redfin data engineers have dug deep into our market databases to find out which neighborhoods have the fastest price reductions.
For listings with more than one price drop, we calculated the time between each price drop. Then, for each neighborhood, we calculated the median average number of days between successive price drops for listings. Neighborhoods with fewer than 20 reduced-price listings were excluded from the calculation.
Here’s a chart of the top ten neighborhoods with the fastest price reductions:

For those readers that are interested to know which neighborhoods had the slowest price drops, feel free to download the full data set in Excel 2007 format.
Both Woodbury and Old Town Huntington Beach made this month’s top ten neighborhoods with the most price-reduced listings and the fastest price reductions.
On average, OC neighborhoods where price reductions happened the fastest were those with slightly higher prices, both in terms of overall median and per square foot. The average median sold price per square foot of the top ten neighborhoods with the fastest price reductions was $318, while the ten neighborhoods with the slowest price reductions had an average median sold price of $298 per square foot.
Dominic said:
I downloaded the full data set. It looked like it was missing lots of areas so I am just wondering why. I did not see san clemente neighborhoods on the list. Am I missing something?
November 19, 2008 12:14 PM
BuyerinOC said:
Dominic,
It looks like most of the areas are in Central and North OC. However that is with the exception of Huntington Beach.
Does this blogger acutally know the areas of OC? It does not seem that all areas of OC are represented on his graphs. I wonder if he is from OC? If he is not can he give an accurate representation of OC RE?
November 19, 2008 4:01 PM
Tim Ellis said:
Dominic & BuyerinOC,
As stated in the post, we excluded neighborhoods with fewer than 20 reduced-price listings. I think that should explain the missing neighborhoods.
November 19, 2008 4:05 PM
Haydn said:
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November 23, 2008 9:49 AM