Lancaster County’s median home sale price fell to $353,500 in October, even as more houses came on the market and more of them closed, according to the Lancaster County Association of Realtors.
The association, using Bright MLS figures released Nov. 11, counted 484 closed sales, up 7.6% from October 2025, and 603 new listings, up 8.8%. Active listings rose to 881, a 33.9% jump from a year earlier, and the county’s months of supply moved from 1.6 to 2.1. Homes spent a median of 11 days on the market, compared with seven days a year earlier, and sellers still received an average of 101% of their original asking price.
LNP | LancasterOnline, working from the same report, noted that $353,500 is 1% above October 2025’s $350,000 but is the second monthly decline after a record $385,000 median held through June, July and August. September’s median was $370,000. Closed sales were also up 5.7% from September, and new listings were up 4.5%. The median time on market was three days longer than in September, and the share of asking price that sellers received was about 2 percentage points lower.
“October’s housing statistics reflect a market that continues to remain active while offering buyers more opportunities,” Christina Diehl, the association’s president, said in the Nov. 11 release. “The increase in available homes is encouraging, particularly for buyers who have faced limited choices over the past several years.”
A narrower snapshot of the Warwick School District, compiled from Bright MLS resale data through Oct. 19 by The Whitt Group, a Lititz-area brokerage, showed a 90-day median sold price of $422,450, 1.2 months of supply, a seven-day median time on market and 74 resale closings. That report’s county figures for the same 90-day window, a $365,000 median and 1.3 months of supply, are not the same as the association’s October calendar-month totals and should not be read as a conflict with them.