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

The median home in Taylor County listed for $279,450 in January, down 3.6% from the previous month's $289,900, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

Compared to January 2023, the median home list price decreased 3.2% from $286,198.

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

Taylor County's median home was 1,817 square feet, listed at $160 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is down 2.4% from January 2023.

Listings in Taylor County moved slowly, 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 68 days on the market. Around 186 homes were newly listed on the market in January, a 3.1% decrease from 192 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.

Across the Abilene metro area, median home prices fell to $277,263, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,839 square feet, at a list price of $157 per square foot.

In Texas, median home prices were $359,945, a slight decrease from December. The median Texas home listed for sale had 1,980 square feet, with a price of $184 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.