Ottawa County sellers asked for slightly more money in March. Here's how much
Compared to March 2024, the median list price decreased 1% from $479,900.
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 2,075 square feet, listed at $221 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is down 1.9% from March 2024.
Listings in Ottawa County moved briskly, at a median 39 days listed compared to the March national median of 53 days on the market. Around 296 homes were newly listed on the market in March, a 7.2% increase from 276 new listings in March 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.
Across the Holland metro area, median list prices rose to $439,900, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 2,027 square feet, at a list price of $219 per square foot.
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In Michigan, median home prices were $275,000, a slight increase from February. The median Michigan home listed for sale had 1,562 square feet, with a price of $174 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $424,900, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,800 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.
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