Middlesex County home prices rose 1% in August, with houses listed at a median of $495,000
The median home in Middlesex County listed for $495,000 in August, up 1% from the previous month's $489,900, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
Compared to August 2022, the median home list price increased 10% from $474,900.
Middlesex County's median home was 1,585 square feet, listed at $294 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 4.8% from August 2022.
Homes in Middlesex County were moving briskly compared to the August national average, with a median of 32 days on the market for listed houses. In the previous month, homes had a median of 29 days on the market. Around 642 homes were newly listed on the market in August, a 38.5% decrease from 1,044 new listings in August 2022.
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 singlefamily homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales.
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Across the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area, median home prices fell to $717,000, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,559 square feet, at a list price of $484 per square foot.
In New Jersey, median home prices were $544,500, a slight decrease from July. The median New Jersey home listed for sale had 1,786 square feet, with a price of $280 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $435,450, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,907 square feet, with a price of $223 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.
The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from the Realtor.com residential listings database. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.
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