Newly released data from Realtor.com for January shows that potential buyers and sellers in Chemung County saw houses sell for lower than the previous month's median sale price of $144,000.
The median home sold for $100,400, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means January, the most recent month for which figures are available, was down 30.3% from December.
Compared to January 2023, the median home sale price was down 25.6% at $100,400 compared to $134,927.
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 $100,000 median selling price in Chemung County was down 30.6% in January from $144,000 the month prior. Since January 2023, the sale price of single-family homes was down 25.1% from a median of $133,415.
No single-family homes sold for at least $1 million or more during the month.
In January, the number of recorded sales in Chemung County dropped by 4.3% since January 2023 from 70 to 67. All residential home sales totaled to $8.4 million.
In New York, homes sold at a median of $399,863 during January, up 8.8% from $367,356 in December. There were 8,478 recorded sales across the state during January, down 14.6% from 9,923 recorded sales in January 2023.
The total value of recorded residential home sales in New York increased by 8.6% from $5.7 billion in December to $6.2 billion this January.
Out of all residential home sales in New York, 14.12% of homes sold for at least $1 million in January, up from 12.45% in January 2023.
Sales prices of single-family homes across New York increased by 6.8% from a median of $327,631 in December to $349,990 in January. Since January 2023, the sale price of single-family homes across the state was down 12.5% from $400,000.
Across the state, the sale price of condominiums and townhomes rose 0.5% from a median of $510,266 in December to $512,779 during January. The median sale price of condominiums and townhomes is down 2.5% from the median of $525,766 in January 2023.
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.
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