Fond du Lac County home listings asked for less money in January – see the current median price here

The median home in Fond du Lac County listed for $281,150 in January, down 0.4% from the previous month's $282,400, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

Compared to January 2023, the median home list price decreased 11.4% from $298,025.

The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Fond du Lac County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.jsonline.com.

Fond du Lac County's median home was 1,703 square feet, listed at $166 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 10.1% from January 2023.

Listings in Fond du Lac County moved briskly, at a median 71 days listed compared to the January national median of 69 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 63 days on the market. Around 46 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 43.8% increase from 32 new listings in January 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 Wisconsin, median home prices were $359,900, a slight increase from December. The median Wisconsin home listed for sale had 1,742 square feet, with a price of $200 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $409,500, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,823 square feet, with a price of $221 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.