Newly released data from Realtor.com for April shows that potential buyers and sellers in New Hanover County saw houses sell for higher than the previous month's median sales price of $383,500.

The median home sold for $432,500, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows. That means April, the most recent month for which figures are available, was up 12.8% from March.

Compared to April 2023, the median home sales price was up 9.8% at $432,500 compared to $394,000.

Realtor.com sources sales data from real estate deeds, resulting in a few months' delay in up-to-date data. The statistics don't include homes currently listed for sale, and aren't directly comparable to listings data.

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Looking only at single-family homes, the $445,000 median selling price in New Hanover County was up 12.2% in April from $396,500 the month prior. Since April 2023, the sales price of single-family homes was up 10.4% from a median of $403,000.

Twenty-two single family homes sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared to 17 recorded transactions of at least $1 million in April 2023.

Condominiums and townhomes increased by 9.1% in sales price during April to a median of $382,000 from $350,000 in March. Compared to April 2023, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes was up 2.3% from $373,250. Three​ condominiums or townhomes sold for $1 million or more during the month, compared to three recorded transactions of at least $1 million in April 2023.

In April, the number of recorded sales in New Hanover County rose by 8.4% since April 2023 from 358 to 388. All residential home sales totaled to $218.5 million.

In North Carolina, homes sold at a median of $345,000 during April, up 5.1% from $328,308 in March. There were 14,937 recorded sales across the state during April, up 4.7% from 14,261 recorded sales in April 2023.

The total value of recorded residential home sales in North Carolina increased by 145.9% from $7.2 billion in March to $17.7 billion this April.

Out of all residential home sales in North Carolina, 10.4% of homes sold for at least $1 million in April, up from 6.39% in April 2023.

Sales prices of single-family homes across North Carolina increased by 5.3% from a median of $325,053 in March to $342,443 in April. Since April 2023, the sales price of single-family homes across the state was up 8.7% from $314,975.

Across the state, the sales price of condominiums and townhomes rose 2.9% from a median of $340,000 in March to $350,000 during April. The median sales price of condominiums and townhomes is up 6.3% from the median of $329,250 in April 2023.