Newly released data from Realtor.com for January shows that potential buyers and sellers in Fond du Lac County saw houses sell for lower than the previous month's median sale price of $231,200.
The median home sold for $219,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means January, the most recent month for which figures are available, was down 5.3% from December.
Compared to January 2023, the median home sale price was down 6.8% at $219,000 compared to $235,000.
Realtor.com sources sales data from real estate deeds, resulting in a few months' delay in up-to-date data. The statistics don't include homes currently listed for sale, and aren't directly comparable to listings data.
Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.jsonline.com .
Looking only at single-family homes, the $219,000 median selling price in Fond du Lac County was down 7.2% in January from $235,950 the month prior. Since January 2023, the sale price of single-family homes was up 4.8% from a median of $209,000.
No single-family homes sold for at least $1 million or more during the month.
Condominiums and townhomes decreased by 2.4% in sales price during January to a median of $181,000 from $185,500 in December. Compared to January 2023, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes was down 75.6% from $740,898. No condominiums or townhomes sold for at least $1 million or more during January.
In January, the number of recorded sales in Fond du Lac County dropped by 9.3% since January 2023 from 54 to 49. All residential home sales totaled to $10.9 million.
In Wisconsin, homes sold at a median of $255,000 during January, down 6.4% from $272,345 in December. There were 3,015 recorded sales across the state during January, up 8.4% from 2,781 recorded sales in January 2023.
The total value of recorded residential home sales in Wisconsin decreased by 33.1% from $1.4 billion in December to $911.8 million this January.
Out of all residential home sales in Wisconsin, 2.02% of homes sold for at least $1 million in January, up from 1.69% in January 2023.
Sales prices of single-family homes across Wisconsin decreased by 6.7% from a median of $278,211 in December to $259,450 in January. Since January 2023, the sale price of single-family homes across the state was up 5.9% from $245,000.
Across the state, the sale price of condominiums and townhomes dropped 3.2% from a median of $247,500 in December to $239,500 during January. The median sale price of condominiums and townhomes is up 11.4% from the median of $215,000 in January 2023.
The median home sale price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. The median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average sale price, which would mean taking the sum of all sale prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high sale.
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 Fond du Lac Reporter: Homes in Fond du Lac County sold for lower prices recently: See how much here
Comments / 0