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Stearns County home prices down month to month, but up year to year
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Newly released data from Realtor.com for February shows that potential buyers and sellers in Stearns County saw lower home sale prices than the previous month’s median of $295,000.
The median home sold for $275,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means February, the most recent month for which figures are available, was down 6.8% from January.
Compared to February 2025, the median home sales price was up 11.1% compared to $247,500.
Realtor.com sources sales data from real estate deeds, resulting in a few months’ delay in the 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.
Here is a breakdown on median sale prices:
- Looking only at single-family homes, the $275,000 median selling price in Stearns County was down 6.8% in February from $295,000 the month prior. Since February 2025, the sales price of single-family homes was up 11.1% from a median of $247,500. One single family home sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared to one recorded transactions of at least $1 million in February 2025.
About recorded home sales in Stearns County in Minnesota
In February, the number of recorded sales in Stearns County rose by 7.2% since February 2025 — from 97 to 104. All residential home sales totaled $30.7 million.
Across Minnesota, homes sold at a median of $320,000 during February, down 2.5% from $328,171 in January. There were 3,789 recorded sales across the state during February, down 10.1% from 4,213 recorded sales in February 2025.
Here’s a breakdown for the full state:
- The total value of recorded residential home sales in Minnesota decreased by 88.1% from $12.7 billion in January to $1.5 billion this February.
- Out of all residential home sales in Minnesota, 2.77% of homes sold for at least $1 million in February, down from 2.9% in February 2025.
- Sales prices of single-family homes across Minnesota increased by 3.8% from a median of $322,588 in January to $335,000 in February. Since February 2025, the sales price of single-family homes across the state was down 2.6% from $343,978.
- Across the state, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes dropped 23.5% from a median of $355,491 in January to $272,000 during February. The median sales price of condominiums and townhomes is down 4.5% from the median of $284,848 in February 2025.
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.
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Despite loons predominantly living in the northern hemisphere and penguins mostly living in the southern hemisphere, researchers consider them to be genetic cousins. Taxonomic analyses placed them in an evolutionary cluster tracing back 40 million to 50 million years ago, along with herons and pelicans.
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