The median home in Tompkins County listed for $487,000 in April, down 1.3% from the previous month’s $493,250, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.
Compared to April 2024, the median home list price increased 20.7% from $403,500.
The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Tompkins County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.ithacajournal.com.
Tompkins County’s median home was 156 square feet, listed at $0.07 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 2.3% from April 2024.
Listings in Tompkins County moved briskly, at a median 34 days listed compared to the April national median of 50 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 28 days on the market. Around 90 homes were newly listed on the market in April, a 10% decrease from 100 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 Ithaca metro area, median home prices fell to $484,125, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 158 square feet, at a list price of $0.07 per square foot.
In New York, median home prices were $699,000, the same as March. The median New York home listed for sale had 25,015 square feet, with a price of $0.07 per square foot.
Throughout the United States, the median home price was $431,250, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 467,514 square feet, with a price of $0.18 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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