All numbers are as of today 9-22-2008 and are from the Bakersfield Multiple Listing Service under the category of single family residential (SFR).

4,002 homes active on the market       -202     From last month

1,277 of those are bank owned properties       +35

1,276 are "short sales" or pre-foreclosure sales       -78

1,518 are in escrow or pending sale (that is excluding anything that went pending prior to 6-1-2007)       -7

1000 of those are bank owned properties       +29

244 are "short sales"       +14

and there were 672 homes sold or closed escrow in August 2008 with       +44

435 of those being bank owned and       +41

56 being short sales       +14