Greene County homes sold for higher prices recently. Here's a look

Newly released data from Realtor.com for April shows that potential buyers and sellers in Greene County saw houses sell for higher than the previous month's median sales price of $235,950.

The median home sold for $250,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means April, the most recent month for which figures are available, was up 6% from March.

Compared to April 2023, the median home sales price was up 11.8% at $250,000 compared to $223,597.

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 $250,000 median selling price in Greene County was up 5.9% in April from $236,100 the month prior. Since April 2023, the sales price of single-family homes was up 11.8% from a median of $223,597.

Forty-three single family homes sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared to six recorded transactions of at least $1 million in April 2023.

In April, the number of recorded sales in Greene County rose by 41.6% since April 2023 from 483 to 684. All residential home sales totaled to $195.5 million.

In Missouri, homes sold at a median of $250,000 during April, up 5.3% from $237,474 in March. There were 7,293 recorded sales across the state during April, down 42.1% from 12,604 recorded sales in April 2023.

The total value of recorded residential home sales in Missouri increased by 17.1% from $1.4 billion in March to $1.6 billion this April.

Out of all residential home sales in Missouri, 2.24% of homes sold for at least $1 million in April, up from 1.44% in April 2023.

Sales prices of single-family homes across Missouri increased by 4.8% from a median of $241,968 in March to $253,469 in April. Since April 2023, the sales price of single-family homes across the state was up 7.1% from $236,658.

Across the state, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes rose 12.9% from a median of $203,164 in March to $229,450 during April. The median sales price of condominiums and townhomes is up 25.2% from the median of $183,300 in April 2023.

The median home sales 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 sales price, which would mean taking the sum of all sales 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.