Two numbers on the Groveport summary look alarming and neither survives inspection. The average asking price of $422,636 against a $311,613 closing average suggests sellers are wildly out of touch — until you filter out four land listings and one $1,800,000 outlier, at which point the median house is asking …

Granville has 76 homes for sale and 19 under contract — four listings for every contract, in the most expensive established market in Licking County. Buyers here negotiated an average of $12,317 off the asking price, and the listings that remain have been on the market an average of 128 …

Rittman has nine homes for sale and thirteen under contract — and the thirteen under contract are 621 square feet larger and $65,438 more expensive than what has been closing. Add active listings averaging just 23 days on market and pendings that went under contract in 26, and this Wayne …

The average Martins Ferry home costs $677 a month in principal and interest. That is among the lowest figures in this entire Ohio series — below Campbell at $713, below Warrensville Heights at $768. And the homes currently for sale are cheaper still: the median active asking price is $89,000 …

Belpre sold homes at $126 per square foot. Its pending contracts were written at $130. Its active listings ask $131. A five-dollar spread across all three segments is one of the tightest alignments recorded anywhere in this Ohio series — most markets show a gap of $15 …

Pepper Pike is the first market in this Ohio series to average over $1,000,000. Thirty-one closings, an average sale price of $1,009,258, a median of $940,500, and homes averaging 4,888 square feet. What makes it interesting is not the price level but the precision: across those 31 sales, …

Columbiana has been closing sales at $163 per square foot. Its twenty homes under contract are priced at $185, and its twenty-two active listings ask the same. A $22-per-foot gap between what is being contracted now and what has been closing is one of the widest forward spreads …

The median home listed for sale in Kirtland is asking $114,779. The median home that actually sold went for $466,000. That is not a market crashing or booming — it is a market where what is on the shelf and what is being bought are almost entirely different …

Logan has 158 homes for sale and 30 under contract. That is 5.27 active listings for every pending sale — among the loosest inventory readings of any market in this Ohio series, behind only Wellsville at 5.5, in a county seat of 6,993 people. It is also a market …

Cortland recorded 99 closings — more than Niles, more than Vienna, more than any comparable community in Trumbull County — from a population of 7,080. It also carries the county highest price per square foot at $142. Both facts trace to the same feature: Cortland sits at the foot …