Waldo continues to attract homebuyers this year..sales are strong, desireable inventory is low. Here are the August 2016 stats for single family home sales in Waldo, using the boundaries of State Line to Holmes and Gregory to 85th:
August 2016:
Number of homes sold: 47
Median list price: $150,000
Median sales price: $158,000
Average days on market: 35
You are reading that correctly–the final sales price was higher than the list price! Last month, half of the homes sold at or above asking price. The lowest closed price was $56,001; the highest was $338,687.
August 2015:
Number of homes sold: 24
Median list price: $125,000
Median sales price: $126,000
Average days on market: 30
That’s a large jump in median sales price compared to August of last year. Looking at the year to date figures below, you’ll see an increase in price as well as number of units sold:
2016 / 2015:
Number of homes sold: 270 / 244
Median list price: $159,900 / $155,000
Median sales price: $160,000 / $154,200
Average days on market: 22 / 35
Currently in Waldo, there are 33 single family homes for sale at a median list price of $149,000 and 35 days on market.
(All information taken from Heartland MLS; deemed reliable but not guaranteed.)
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My two girls grew up in Brookside. We’ve had three Brookside addresses. When we moved to our current home in Armour Hills, the kids were 12 and 8. There was the same mix of families and older folks on the block then as there is now–except my husband and I are now the ‘older’ residents as new families have moved in. Throughout the last ten years we walked to the park, to the Brookside shops; my girls each got their first jobs at small local Brookside businesses (The New Dime Store and Cosentino’s). We took them to the Art Annual, the Farmer’s Market, trick or treating; we had block parties and yard sales and their schools were nearby. They rode bikes on the Trolley Track Trail, tee-peed the neighbors and sled down Suicide Hill on snow days. As I write these words I see the five neighbor boys playing on a tire swing in their front yard across the street. Another generation growing up on the block…
