New Castle County housing prices slip from January

Newly released data from Realtor.com for February shows that potential buyers and sellers in New Castle County saw lower home sale prices than the previous month’s median of $335,000.

The median home sold for $325,000, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means February, the most recent month for which figures are available, was down 3% from January.

Compared with February 2025, the median home sales price was up 2.2% compared with $318,000.

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.

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Here is a breakdown on median sale prices:

• Looking only at single-family homes, the $395,000 median selling price in New Castle County was down 2.9% in February from $407,000 the month prior. Since February 2025, the sales price of single-family homes was up 11.3% from a median of $355,000. Five single-family homes sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared with four recorded transactions of at least $1 million in February 2025.

• Condominiums and townhomes increased by 6.1% in sales price during February to a median of $255,000 from $240,360 in January. Compared with February 2025, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes was up 11.9% from $227,940. No condominiums or townhomes sold for $1 million or more during February.

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About recorded home sales in New Castle County in Delaware

In February, the number of recorded sales in New Castle County dropped by 19.9% since February 2025 – from 347 to 278. All residential home sales totaled $101.6 million.

Across Delaware, homes sold at a median of $380,000 during February, a slight decrease from $381,000 in January. There were 631 recorded sales across the state during February, down 33.4% from 947 recorded sales in February 2025. 

Here’s a breakdown for the full state:

• The total value of recorded residential home sales in Delaware decreased by 13.8% from $351.3 million in January to $302.8 million this February. 
• Out of all residential home sales in Delaware, 6.18% of homes sold for at least $1 million in February, up from 4.01% in February 2025.
• Sales prices of single-family homes across Delaware decreased by 2.4% from a median of $410,000 in January to $400,000 in February. Since February 2025, the sales price of single-family homes across the state was up 4.2% from $383,757. 
• Across the state, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes rose 3.1% from a median of $303,000 in January to $312,500 during February. The median sales price of condominiums and townhomes is down 6.7% from the median of $335,000 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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