Homes in Bay County sold for higher prices recently: See how much here

Newly released data for December shows that potential buyers and sellers in Bay County saw houses sell for slightly higher than the previous month's median sale price of $362,500.

The median home sold for $365,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means December, the most recent month for which figures are available, was up 0.7% from November.

Compared to December 2022, the median home sale price was up 4.3% at $365,000 compared to $350,000.

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.

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Looking only at single-family homes, the $361,025 median selling price in Bay County was up 3.2% in December from $350,000 the month prior. Since December 2022, the sale price of single-family homes was up 12.6% from a median of $320,500.

Seventeen single family homes sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared to five recorded transactions of at least $1 million in December 2022.

Condominiums and townhomes decreased by 8.6% in sales price during December to a median of $393,200 from $430,000 in November. Compared to December 2022, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes was down 0.5% from $395,000. One​ condominium or townhouse sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared to three recorded transactions of at least $1 million in December 2022.

In December, the number of recorded sales in Bay County dropped by 2.7% since December 2022 from 335 to 326. All residential home sales totaled to $173.8 million.

In Florida, homes sold at a median of $381,036 during December, up 1.6% from $375,000 in November. There were 26,458 recorded sales across the state during December, down 11% from 29,710 recorded sales in December 2022.

The total value of recorded residential home sales in Florida increased by 76.1% from $14.5 billion in November to $25.5 billion this December.

Out of all residential home sales in Florida, 11.64% of homes sold for at least $1 million in December, up from 7.87% in December 2022.

Sales prices of single-family homes across Florida increased by 1.7% from a median of $400,000 in November to $406,803 in December. Since December 2022, the sale price of single-family homes across the state was up 5.7% from $384,999.

Across the state, the sale price of condominiums and townhomes rose 2.1% from a median of $305,105 in November to $311,470 during December. The median sale price of condominiums and townhomes is up 9.8% from the median of $283,600 in December 2022.

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.