Monthly inventory update

5/2 - SM and PP were pretty flat for the week, while MV rose to its highest point this year. All are up month-to-month and well above last year's level.

The larger Westside is up 9% month-to-month and a huge 34% from April 2007.

4/25 - SM was pretty flat after last week's jump, while PP and MV both had their jumps higher.

4/18 - Big 6-7% jump in Santa Monica! PP and MV were pretty flat.

4/11 - Pretty flat for the week, SM slightly up, PP flat, MV down a little.

4/4 - Santa Monica is down a little, Pacific Palisades is up a little (and setting record highs because of higher-priced listings), and Mar Vista is flat. (3/28 New listings adjusted for new listings through 3/31.)

       LA County  Santa Monica  Pacific Palisades  Mar Vista
                <$3M New Tot DOM<$2M New Tot DOM Tot New DOM
--------  ------  --------------  --------------  ----------
 1/30/06  27,732
 2/28/06  29,420
 3/31/06  31,819
 5/ 1/06  34,032  38  33
 6/ 2/06  37,847  56  36      38
 6/30/06  42,317  66  40      49
 8/ 4/06  45,315  70  34      50
 9/ 1/06  46,781  71  27      59
10/ 6/06  47,369  83  25  98  71
11/ 3/06  45,780  80  20  91  77
12/ 1/06  43,103  65  18  72  96  39  20
 1/ 5/07  35,646  54   4  60 117  33   6  71  66
--------  ------  --------------  --------------  ----------
 2/ 2/07  36,715  38  15  45 124  29  16  61  71  70      
 3/ 2/07  41,251  42  14  51 114  26  10  68  79  55  25  76
 4/ 6/07  42,857  41  23  49 107  18   8  73 103  54  52  50
 5/ 4/07  45,918  46  28  54  92  19   6  82  79  71  37  52
 6/ 1/07  52,198  50  25  61  78  17  15  87  78  77  39  53
 6/30/07  52,769  42  18  56  81  17  11  92  77  74  33  61
 8/ 3/07  54,166  53  28  68  86  23  12  78  76  84  39  68
 8/31/07  57,432  57  21  72  98  18   7  69  75  90  40  79
 9/28/07  58,973  59  17  74 103  26   9  90  81  87  20  87
11/ 2/07  58,731  62  19  81 120  29   7 106  77  98  35  88
11/30/07  59,108  52  14  67 136  23  11  88  94  96  23  96
12/31/07  53,475  42   5  53 148  19   2  73 119  79  13 116
--------  ------  --------------  --------------  ----------
 2/ 1/08  53,722  54  16  67 157  26  16 101 118  89  36  96
 2/29/08  53,520  50  10  68 178  29   8 108 108  88  21 103
 3/28/08  53,566  57  17  81 171  32  14 122  92  82  22 105
 4/ 4/08  54,290  55   1  78 164  34   0 124 101  82   5 101
 4/11/08  54,468  56   6  79 162  34   2 125 104  79  13 102
 4/18/08          60  10  84 161  33   4 126  96  79  20  98
 4/25/08  53,359  59  14  85 168  36   7 132 101  85  27  90
 5/ 2/08  54,098  59  14  83 159  35   7 136  93  90  33  96
 5/ 9/08  

All Westside

             2/1    3/28 
                2/29     5/2 
Bel Air-H.Hls.85  82  95 100
Bev.Ctr.-M.M. 71  67  75  79
Beverly Hills 65  64  66  78
B.H. P.O.     78  80  92  95
B'wood Vic.   50  56  53  57
Brentwood     77  86  96 104
Chev.-R.Pk.'8'21  19  20  24
Culver City   42  48  50  57
Malibu       185 200 213 242
Malibu Beach  38  49  57  60
Marina Del Rey26  36  25  25
Pac.Palisades101 108 122 136
Palms-M.Vista 89  88  82  90
Playa Del Rey 22  19  15  15
Playa Vista    5   4   6   5
Santa Monica  67  68  81  84
Sunset-Hwd.H.189 185 215 240
Topanga       49  44  63  69
Venice        72  72  74  83
W.H'wood Vic. 48  51  48  43
West L.A.     20  18  25  25
Westchester   72  54  79  86
W'wood-C.City 37  36  42  49
             ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ 
Total       1509    1694
                1524    1846

Notes

See here for 2007 monthly totals. LA County inventory via OC Renter. Santa Monica Days on Market (DOM) is for <$3M, and omits Santa Monica Canyon (in City of Los Angeles but S.M. Post Office). Pacific Palisades DOM is for <$2M and count omits mobile homes. "New" is for previous month, or month-to-date for current partial month.