From January through March of 2019, there were 249 homes sold, with a median sale price of $53,000 - a 9.7% increase over the $48,300 median sale price for the same period of the previous year. There were 216 homes sold in Lorain in the first quarter of 2018.
The median sales tax in Lorain for the most recent year with available data, 2015, was $1,291, approximately 2.4% of the median home sale price for the first quarter of 2019.
The following table compares Lorain to other Lorain County cities with similar median sales prices in the first quarter of 2019:
| City | Jan. - Mar. 2019 Home Sales | Jan. - Mar. 2018 Home Sales | % change (Total Home Sales) | Jan. - Mar. 2019 Median Sales Price | Jan. - Mar. 2018 Median Sales Price | % change (Median Sales Price) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brentwood Lake | 1 | 2 | -50% | $131,000 | $123,250 | 6.3% |
| Pheasant Run | 11 | 8 | 37.5% | $112,000 | $63,500 | 76.4% |
| Oberlin | 28 | 16 | 75% | $97,000 | $143,200 | -32.3% |
| Eaton Estates | 8 | 2 | 300% | $93,950 | $90,848 | 3.4% |
| Sheffield Lake | 45 | 38 | 18.4% | $91,000 | $88,200 | 3.2% |
| Coonville | 2 | 1 | 100% | $89,374 | $62,000 | 44.2% |
| Penfield Junction | 1 | 7 | -85.7% | $83,000 | $78,000 | 6.4% |
| Elyria | 218 | 209 | 4.3% | $81,700 | $81,500 | 0.2% |
| South Amherst | 2 | 8 | -75% | $70,500 | $100,450 | -29.8% |
| Lorain | 249 | 216 | 15.3% | $53,000 | $48,300 | 9.7% |
| Vincent | 1 | 1 | 0% | $23,333 | $30,000 | -22.2% |
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