Norfolk County home sellers sought higher price in April. What the median price was

The median home in Norfolk County listed for $978,899 in April, up 0.7% from the previous month's $972,498, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

That figure represented an increase of 10.4% over the median home list price of $885,000 in April 2023.

The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Norfolk County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other community data, is available at data.patriotledger.com.

Norfolk County's median home was 2,207 square feet, listed at $478 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 11.3% from April 2023.

Listings in Norfolk County moved briskly, at a median 22 days listed compared to the April national median of 47 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 22 days on the market. Around 800 homes were newly listed on the market in April, a 10.5% increase from 724 new listings in April 2023.

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 Boston-Cambridge-Newton metro area, median home prices fell to $869,900, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,808 square feet, at a list price of $497 per square foot.

In Massachusetts, median home prices were $799,999, a slight increase from March. The median Massachusetts home listed for sale had 1,826 square feet, with a price of $455 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $429,950, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,840 square feet, with a price of $230 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 Realtor.com. Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu.

This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Norfolk County's median home lists for $978,899 in April, slight rise