The median home in Wood County listed for $274,300 in August, down 7.8% from the previous month’s $297,450, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
Compared to August 2024, the median home list price increased 4.5% from $262,450.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Wood County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.jsonline.com.
Wood County’s median home was 1,859 square feet, listed at $139 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 1.5% from August 2024.
Listings in Wood County moved briskly, at a median 43 days listed compared to the August national median of 60 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 40 days on the market. Around 76 homes were newly listed on the market in August, the same number of new listings from August 2024.
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.
In Wisconsin, median home prices were $399,000, a slight decrease from July. The median Wisconsin home listed for sale had 1,811 square feet, with a price of $216 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $429,990, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,844 square feet, with a price of $228 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.
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This article originally appeared on Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune: Wood County home listings median price in August