How hot is the real estate market in Travis County? Home prices rose year over year

Sean Lahman
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The median sales price for a single-family home in Travis County during October was $497,125. That's an increase of 16.2% compared with October 2020, according to a USA TODAY Network localized analysis generated with data from Realtor.com.

The number of houses sold fell by 29.4% from a year earlier. A total of 726 houses were sold countywide during the month of October. During the same period a year earlier, 1,028 single-family homes were sold.

Real estate sales can take weeks or months to be recorded and collected. This is the latest data made available through Realtor.com to the USA TODAY Network.

Condominiums and townhomes sold in October had a median sales price of $400,775. That figure represents a 8.2% increase year-over-year. In Travis County, 238 were sold, down 24.2% from a year earlier.

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The top 10% of the properties sold had prices of at least $675,688, up 6.2% from a year before.

In October, six properties sold for $1 million or more: six single-family homes.

The median home sale price — the midway point of all the houses or units sold over a period of time — is used in this report instead of the average home sale price because experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market. In finding the average price, all prices of homes sold are added and then divided by the number of homes sold. This measure can be skewed by one low or high price.

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The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com. The story was written by Sean Lahman.

Demand for housing is driving up prices in much of the United States. Shown is a newly constructed house for sale in December in Indianapolis' Keystone-Monon neighborhood.
Demand for housing is driving up prices in much of the United States. Shown is a newly constructed house for sale in December in Indianapolis' Keystone-Monon neighborhood.

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Travis County's average home sold for a higher price year over year