The median sales price for a single-family home in Sussex County during July was $392,500. That’s an increase of 13.8% compared with July 2020, according to data from Realtor.com.
The number of houses sold rose by 6.4% from a year earlier. A total of 414 houses were sold countywide in July. During the same period a year earlier, 389 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 the National Association of Realtors to the USA TODAY Network.
Condominiums and town homes sold in July had a median sales price of $360,000. That figure represents a 7.5% increase year-over-year. In Sussex County, 111 were sold, down 29.3% from a year earlier.
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The top 10% of the properties sold had prices of at least $717,550, down 1.7% from a year before.
In July, 19 properties sold for $1 million or more: 17 single-family homes and two condominiums or townhomes.
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…
