Carroll County October home sales: median $285,000, down 3.4% from a year ago
The 12-month median was $299,000, flat, and supply stood at 5.6 months on the month's sales pace, the official October FMLS figures show.
By Jeff Crowe
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CARROLLTON, Ga. No single measure broke from the pattern in Carroll County in October. Buyers closed on 75 homes at a median price of $285,000.
That median was down 3.4% from $294,900 in October a year earlier, and closings were down 22.7%.
“Carroll County was steady in October, with 75 closings at a $285,000 median and a 12-month median of $299,000. Homes sold at a median 100.0% of list, so sellers who priced it right got their price.”
Over the 12 months through October, 930 homes sold at a median of $299,000, unchanged from $299,000 in the prior 12 months.
The median home closed at 100.0% of its final list price in October, matching the 12-month figure. Of the month's sales, 41.1% closed below list. A price cut came before 34.7% of sales, compared with 38.1% over the year.
Time to sell ran slower than the year's norm: a median 35 days in October, against 31 days over 12 months.
With 418 active listings as of 1:20 p.m. ET Nov. 14, Carroll County had 5.6 months of supply at October's closing pace, which our published bands read as balanced. On the 12-month pace it was 5.4 months, in the same band.
Sellers listed 165 homes in October, up 3.8% from 159 a year earlier, while buyers signed 79 contracts, up 11.3% from 71.
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Jeff Crowe, publisher and market reporter
Jeff Crowe writes about Georgia home sales from the official monthly FMLS run. Jeff is a licensed real estate agent with CENTURY 21 The Avenues, a full-service local brokerage in Calhoun, Ga.