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Donaldsonville-area home prices rise 2.1% in April, with houses for sale in high demand

Mike Stucka and Sean Lahman USA TODAY NETWORK
Coldwell Banker real estate agent Annie Beyersdorf meets with Robby Schroeder and Michael Jacobs before a home inspection on a home that the couple has an accepted offer to purchase on March 28, 2022, in Grand Chute, Wis. Three months ago, they sold their home and started to hunt for a new, larger one with character inside and out. It took them three months, almost 30 private visits and open houses, and four offers before they were able to land a home.

A typical Ascension Parish home listed for $383,000 in April, up 2.1% from a month earlier, an analysis of data from Realtor.com shows.

The median list home price in April was up about 16.6% from April 2021. Ascension Parish's median home was 2,239 square feet for a listed price of $167 per square foot.

The Ascension Parish market was busy, with a median 39 days on market. A month earlier, homes had a median 59 days on market. The market added 172 new home listings in April, compared with the 240 added in April 2021. The market ended the month with some 117 listings of homes for sale.

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Across metro Baton Rouge, median home prices rose to $349,999, up 0.1% from a month earlier. The median home had 2,100 square feet, at a list price of $167 per square foot.

Across all of Louisiana, median home prices were $289,000, rising 2.3% from a month earlier. The median Louisiana home for sale had 1,915 square feet at list price of $147 per square foot.

Across the United States, median home prices were $425,000, up 5% from a month earlier. The median American home for sale had 1,821 square feet, listed at $220 per square foot.

The median home list price — the midway point of all the houses or units listed over a period of time — is used more often in this report instead of the average home list price because experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market. In finding the average price, all prices of homes listed are added and then divided by the number of homes sold. This measure can be skewed by one 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 the Realtor.com residential listings database.. The story was written by Mike Stucka and Sean Lahman.