Washington County home listings asked for less money in July – see the current median price here

The median home in Washington County listed for $384,925 in July, down 1.3% from the previous month's $389,900, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows .

Compared to July 2023, the median home list price increased 0.3% from $383,705.

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

Washington County's median home was 1,931 square feet, listed at $183 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 3.8% from July 2023.

Listings in Washington County moved briskly, at a median 37 days listed compared to the July national median of 50 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 30 days on the market. Around 142 homes were newly listed on the market in July, a 21.1% decrease from 180 new listings in July 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 Hagerstown-Martinsburg metro area, median home prices fell to $350,000, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,917 square feet, at a list price of $186 per square foot.

In Maryland, median home prices were $432,500, a slight decrease from June. The median Maryland home listed for sale had 1,902 square feet, with a price of $233 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $439,950, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,869 square feet, with a price of $231 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.

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