The median home in Hillsdale County listed for $272,400 in August, down 8.9% from the previous month’s $299,675, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
Compared to August 2023, the median home list price increased 9.8% from $248,000.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Hillsdale County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.hillsdale.net.
Hillsdale County’s median home was 1,724 square feet, listed at $156 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 15.4% from August 2023.
Listings in Hillsdale County moved steadily, at a median 47 days listed compared to the August national median of 53 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 46 days on the market. Around 60 homes were newly listed on the market in August, a 6.3% decrease from 64 new listings in August 2023.
The median home prices issued by Realtor.com may exclude many, or even most, of a market’s homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.
In Michigan, median home prices were $299,900, a slight decrease from July. The median Michigan home listed for sale had 1,632 square feet, with a price of $181 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $429,990, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,853 square feet, with a price of $228 per square foot.
The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what’s happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price.
The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.
This article originally appeared on Hillsdale Daily News: Hillsdale County home listings asked for less money in August – see the current median price here
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