The 3Q 2009 Hamptons/North Fork Market Overview that I author for Prudential Douglas Elliman was released today.

Other reports we prepare can be found here.

Charts that contain the 3Q 2009 data are now available.

An excerpt

>…Listing inventory expanded 21.5% to 2,419 units from 1,991 units in the prior year quarter and 5.8% higher than the 2,286 units in the prior quarter. The jump in the number of sales over the summer prompted many sellers to return their listings to the market. There were 459 sales in the third quarter, 49.5% more than the 307 sales of the prior quarter and 29.3% more than the 355 sales in the prior year quarter. The number of sales was the highest quarterly total since the second quarter of 2008, when there were 541 sales, but was 56.4% below the record high water mark of 1,052 sales in the second quarter of 2004. Monthly absorption, the number of months it would take to sell existing inventory at the current pace of sales, peaked in the first quarter of 2009 at 34.2 months. The absorption rate fell in the second quarter to 22.3 months and fell in the third quarter to 15.8 months or roughly half the rate of peak, indicating that the pace of sales activity has been faster than new inventory being added to the market…

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