Hurricane Katrina has changed this market, creating a reduction of inventory of homes for sale known as a seller's market. Sales of homes have been at an all time record. New homes are selling as fast as they can be built.
Data pulled from Gulf Coast MLS for the entire Mobile Metro and Gulf Coast area for 2005 had a total of 7,322 homes sold in 2005 at an average of $161,425. Sales for 2004 has a total of 6,195 homes sold for $878,568,593 with an average sale price of $141,819.