All numbers are as of today 11-2-2008 and are from the Bakersfield Multiple Listing Service under the category of single family residential (SFR).

3,893 homes active on the market      

1,452 of those are bank owned properties      

1,234 are "short sales" or pre-foreclosure sales      

1,382 are in escrow or pending sale (that is excluding anything that went pending prior to 8-1-2008)      

992 of those are bank owned properties      

191 are "short sales"      

and there were 549 homes sold or closed escrow in October 2008 with      

371 of those being bank owned and      

65 being short sales      

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