In Delaware, median home prices were $479,940, a slight decrease from November. The median Delaware home listed for sale had 2,048 square feet, with a price of $235 per square foot. 

The median home in New Castle County listed for $399,900 in December, down 2.4% from the previous month’s $409,750, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. Compared with December 2023, the median home list price slightly decreased from $400,000.

The median home in Kent County listed for $399,925 in December, slightly up from the previous month’s $399,900. Compared with December 2023, the median home list price decreased 2.3% from $409,250.

The median home in Sussex County listed for $545,300 in December, slightly up from the previous month’s $545,200. Compared with December 2023, the median home list price increased 1% from $539,700.

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

Home listings in Delaware

New Castle County’s median home was 1,877 square feet, listed at $212 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 2.4% from December 2023.

Listings in New Castle County moved briskly, at a median 47 days listed compared with the December national median of 70 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 39 days on the market. Around 338 homes were newly listed on the market in December, a 5.6% increase from 320 new listings in December 2023. 

Kent County’s median home was 2,018 square feet, listed at $207 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 3.1% from December 2023.

Listings in Kent County moved briskly, at a median 54 days listed compared with the December national median of 70 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 49 days on the market. Around 150 homes were newly listed on the market in December, a 17.2% increase from 128 new listings in December 2023. 

Sussex County’s median home was 2,129 square feet, listed at $259 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 0.9% from December 2023.

Listings in Sussex County moved slowly, at a median 79 days listed compared with the December national median of 70 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 67 days on the market. Around 308 homes were newly listed on the market in December, a 13.2% increase from 272 new listings in December 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.

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Across the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area, median home prices fell to $358,075, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,551 square feet, at a list price of $226 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $402,502, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,800 square feet, with a price of $222 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.