Here are the sales trends that appear from DataQuick’s freshest homebuying stats for the 22 business days ending Oct. 13 in our South Coast beach cities …

• 3-city sales totaled 145 – that’s +25% vs. a year ago. Countywide, sales were +2% vs. a year ago.

• Of the 3 cities’ 5 ZIP codes, 3 had sales gains vs. a year ago while 0 had a gain in their median selling price vs. a year ago.

• 0 of these 5 ZIP codes beat the 2.4% overall performance of the countywide median for the past year.

Here’s how the latest DataQuick report breaks down South Coast ZIPs; change is vs. a year ago:

CityZIPMedian priceYr. chg.SalesYr. chg.
Dana Point 92624 $547,000 -43.3% 3 -40.0%
Dana Point 92629 $640,000 -11.4% 28 -12.5%
Laguna Beach 92651 $1,195,000 -9.8% 32 +45.5%
San Clemente 92672 $568,000 -1.6% 38 +171.4%
San Clemente 92673 $662,500 -7.7% 44 +2.3%
•O.C. All $430,000 +2.4% 2,836 +2.3%

 

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