Fifty-three properties closed in the Orient market area over the past six months. Fifteen are on the market today and ten are already under contract. That is roughly 1.7 months of supply in a market that is closing a sale every three and a half days, and it makes Orient …

Sugar Grove sellers are asking an average of $532,035. Sugar Grove buyers have been paying an average of $373,893. That $158,000 gap is the largest of any market covered in this Fairfield County series, and it explains almost everything else in the numbers below, including why listings here sit for …

The average asking price across active listings in the Alexandria market area is $4,896,687. The average recent sale is $737,944. That gap is not a market in freefall or a boom, it is three land parcels asking a combined $34.8 million sitting in the same column as five houses. Separating …

Recent sales in the Carroll market area averaged $223 per square foot, the highest figure of any Fairfield County market in this series. Thirty-one properties closed over the past six months at an average of $435,744, and they took only 64 days to get there. Carroll is the county premium …

Three houses are for sale in the Chippewa Lake market area and nothing at all is under contract. Eighteen properties closed in the past six months at an average of $325,072, which works out to a sale roughly every ten days. Three listings against that pace is about one month …

Eight properties closed in the Hide A Way Hills market area over the past six months at an average sold price of $342,106. Every one of the six house sales among them closed below its asking price. That is not a coincidence of a small sample, and it is the …

Thirteen properties closed in the Pleasantville market area over the past six months, averaging $365,133 in 77 days. Nine of the twelve closings shown in detail were ordinary house sales, and those had a median of $315,000. The gap between that median and the average is one large sale, and …

Thirty-nine properties closed in the Ostrander market area over the past six months at an average sold price of $493,458, and they took an average of 117 days to get there. Of the twelve closings shown in detail, seven were land rather than houses. In a Delaware County village of …

One recent sale in Bethesda closed at $1,325,000. The median residential closing was $289,500. In a Belmont County village of roughly 1,100 people, a single transaction of that size lifts the residential mean to $414,711 and makes the average a poor guide to what a house here is worth.

The Jeffersonville market report shows an average asking price of $601,054. Fourteen of the fifteen listings are houses, and they ask a median of $367,380 with nothing above $416,395. The difference is a single land parcel listed at $4,426,629, which in a fifteen-listing market more than doubles the reported …