New Castle County home prices dip in March listings

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The median home in New Castle County was listed at $421,502 in March, slightly down from the previous month's $425,000, an analysis of Realtor.com data shows.

Compared with March 2025, the median home list price increased 8.1% from $389,900.

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

New Castle County's median home was 1,900 square feet, listed at $213 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is down 1.7% from March 2025.

Listings in New Castle County moved briskly, at a median 38 days listed compared with the March national median of 57 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 45 days on the market. Around 586 homes were newly listed on the market in March, a 4.6% increase from 560 new listings in March 2025. 

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.

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Across the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area, median home prices rose to $359,900, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 1,533 square feet, at a list price of $228 per square foot.

In Delaware, median home prices were $499,450, a slight increase from February. The median Delaware home listed for sale had 2,068 square feet, with a price of $237 per square foot. 

Throughout the United States, the median home price was $415,450, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,800 square feet, with a price of $225 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.

USA TODAY Co. 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.