Winnebago County home listings asked for more money in May - see the current median price here
Compared to May 2024, the median home list price decreased 14.1% from $399,675.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Winnebago County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.jsonline.com.
Winnebago County's median home was 1,820 square feet, listed at $185 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is down 1.3% from May 2024.
Listings in Winnebago County moved briskly, at a median 32 days listed compared to the May national median of 51 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 32 days on the market. Around 160 homes were newly listed on the market in May, a 4.8% decrease from 168 new listings in May 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 $399,900, a slight increase from April. The median Wisconsin home listed for sale had 1,806 square feet, with a price of $218 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $440,000, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,840 square feet, with a price of $234 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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