The median home in New Hanover County listed for $524,000 in December, up 1.1% from the previous month’s $518,125, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

Compared to December 2022, the median home list price decreased 0.2% from $516,356.

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

New Hanover County’s median home was 1,827 square feet, listed at $284 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 7.1% from December 2022.

Listings in New Hanover County moved briskly, at a median 54 days listed compared to the December national median of 61 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 46 days on the market. Around 268 homes were newly listed on the market in December, a 9.8% increase from 244 new listings in December 2022.

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 Wilmington metro area, median home prices fell to $472,165, slightly lower than a month earlier. The median home had 1,872 square feet, at a list price of $249 per square foot.

In North Carolina, median home prices were $397,000, a slight decrease from November. The median North Carolina home listed for sale had 1,950 square feet, with a price of $213 per square foot.

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $410,000, a slight decrease from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,838 square feet, with a price of $220 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 Wilmington StarNews: New Hanover County home prices rose 1.1% in December, with houses listed at a median of $524,000