Ottawa County home sellers asked for more money in February

OTTAWA COUNTY — The median home in Ottawa County was listed for $482,417 in February, up 2% from the previous month's $472,950, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

Compared to February 2023, the median home list price increased 4.6% from $429,900.

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

Ottawa County's median home was 2,128 square feet, listed at $228 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 7.6% from February 2023.

Listings in Ottawa County moved steadily, at a median 58 days listed compared to the February national median of 61 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 66 days on the market. Around 202 homes were newly listed on the market in February, a 7.3% decrease from 218 new listings in February 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 Holland metro area, median home prices rose to $423,500, up 0.1% from a month earlier. The median home had 2,075 square feet, at a list price of $210 per square foot.

In Michigan, median home prices were $259,900, a slight increase from January. The median Michigan home listed for sale had 1,548 square feet, with a price of $167 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $415,500, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,819 square feet, with a price of $224 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.