Regional Property Market Trends
New Property Transfers and Median Sale Prices Reported Across Multiple Regional Counties
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In Northampton County, the median sale was a 1,088-square-foot home on Freemansburg Avenue in Bethlehem that sold for $350,000. Individual transactions included a 960-square-foot Miller Street property selling for $365,000 and a 1,008-square-foot Creek Road property selling for $375,000.
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Schuylkill County transactions ranged widely, from a $15,000, 1,176-square-foot property on West Phillips Street to a $700,000, 2,016-square-foot property on Wynonah Drive.
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Pike County’s reported sales included a $120,000, 1,192-square-foot property on Depue Circle and a $327,000, 1,440-square-foot property on Dogwood Lane; the county median was a two-bedroom, two-bathroom home on Robin Lane in Dingmans Ferry.
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Lehigh County’s listed transactions included relatively lower-priced city properties, such as a three-bedroom home on South Bradford Street that sold for $60,000 and a three-bedroom home on South 10th Street that sold for $95,000. The county’s median sale was a 2,132-square-foot property on 13th Street in Allentown.
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Carbon County’s higher-priced sales included a 2,572-square-foot, three-bedroom property on Kipling Lane that sold for $520,000 and a 1,823-square-foot Red Oak Road property that sold for $530,612, both above the county’s $238,000 median.
Residential property sales across five Pennsylvania counties hit 287 transactions in the week of August 24, with median prices ranging from $173,000 in Schuylkill County to $350,000 in Lehigh and Northampton counties lehighvalleylive. Commercial real estate in Illinois saw far steeper price variation, from $115,000 in rural Ogle County to $3.2 million in the urban DuPage/Cook market lehighvalleylive.
Pennsylvania Residential Market Shows Geographic Price Splits
Lehigh County led in transaction volume with 110 sales, followed by Northampton County's 77 lehighvalleylive. Both counties shared the highest median price at $350,000. Pike County recorded 40 sales with a $290,000 median, while Schuylkill and Carbon counties lagged with 34 and 26 sales respectively lehighvalleylive. Price floors tell a starker story: Lehigh County saw homes sell for as little as $60,000 and $95,000 in Allentown, yet the county median reached $350,000.
Dramatic Gaps Within Each County's Sales Mix
Schuylkill County transactions ranged from $15,000 to $700,000—a 47-fold spread lehighvalleylive. Carbon County's higher-end sales included two properties above $520,000, well above the $238,000 median lehighvalleylive. Pike County's $327,000 property on Dogwood Lane showed double the median price, while a $120,000 Depue Circle home fell below. These gaps reflect location, condition, and lot size rather than uniform county valuations.
Chicago Suburbs Show Extreme Commercial Concentration
Illinois commercial transactions in August—or July and August for Ogle County—revealed a lopsided market: DuPage/Cook recorded 227 sales versus just 8 in Ogle lehighvalleylive. Will County logged 35, Kane 18, and McHenry 16 lehighvalleylive. The median prices track this urban-suburban split: $3.2 million in DuPage/Cook, $814,500 in McHenry, $320,000 in Will, $285,000 in Kane, and $115,000 in Ogle. Flagship Chicago deals included a $64.5 million North Michigan Avenue property and a $12.5 million Adams Street purchase lehighvalleylive.
Price-Per-Square-Foot Differences Mask True Value Drivers
A small 159th Street property in Will County reached $1,943 per square foot, while large warehouse assets dropped to $43 per square foot lehighvalleylive. The $64.5 million Michigan Avenue property averaged $1,103 per square foot. These gaps aren't pricing errors—they reflect location prestige, development potential, tenant quality, and zoning. Comparing per-square-foot rates across counties or asset types without controlling for these factors produces misleading conclusions lehighvalleylive.
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