Homes in Stearns County sold for higher prices recently: See how much here

Newly released data from Realtor.com for February shows that potential buyers and sellers in Stearns County saw houses sell for higher than the previous month's median sales price of $242,450.

The median home sold for $249,950, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means February, the most recent month for which figures are available, was up 3.1% from January.

Compared to February 2023, the median home sales price was up 16.3% at $249,950 compared to $215,000.

Realtor.com sources sales data from real estate deeds, resulting in a few months' delay in up-to-date data. The statistics don't include homes currently listed for sale, and aren't directly comparable to listings data.

Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at data.sctimes.com.

Looking only at single-family homes, the $250,000 median selling price in Stearns County was up 1.5% in February from $246,250 the month prior. Since February 2023, the sales price of single-family homes was up 16.3% from a median of $215,000.

One single family home sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared to zero recorded transactions of at least $1 million in February 2023.

In February, the number of recorded sales in Stearns County rose by 53.6% since February 2023 from 69 to 106. All residential home sales totaled to $29 million.

In Minnesota, homes sold at a median of $306,589 during February, up 2.2% from $299,909 in January. There were 3,449 recorded sales across the state during February, up 16.2% from 2,969 recorded sales in February 2023.

The total value of recorded residential home sales in Minnesota decreased by 24.7% from $2.1 billion in January to $1.6 billion this February.

Out of all residential home sales in Minnesota, 2.9% of homes sold for at least $1 million in February, up from 2.43% in February 2023.

Sales prices of single-family homes across Minnesota increased by 1.5% from a median of $310,200 in January to $315,000 in February. Since February 2023, the sales price of single-family homes across the state was up 5% from $300,000.

Across the state, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes rose 2.2% from a median of $264,000 in January to $269,700 during February. The median sales price of condominiums and townhomes is up 0.4% from the median of $268,750 in February 2023.

The median home sales price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. The median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average sales price, which would mean taking the sum of all sales prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high sale.

The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Realtor.com. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.

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