Monroe County home listings asked for more money in April - see the current median price here
Compared to April 2024, the median home list price decreased 3.7% from $422,463.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Monroe County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.indystar.com.
The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 1.6% from April 2024.
Listings in Monroe County moved steadily, at a median 38 days listed compared to the April national median of 50 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 43 days on the market. Around 204 homes were newly listed on the market in April, a 6.3% increase from 192 new listings in April 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 Bloomington metro area, median home prices rose to $397,000, slightly higher than a month earlier.
In Indiana, median home prices were $299,900, a slight increase from March.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $431,250, a slight increase from the month prior.
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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