Brookfield Home Sales: 23 Sold in September at an Average of $791,957

Brookfield's single-family housing market closed September with 23 homes sold at an average sale price of $791,957, according to September market trends published by Robert Morey. Homes spent an average of 34 days on the market, and sold at 100 percent of asking price on average — meaning the typical sale closed right at its listed price.

Seventeen homes were listed during the month at an average listed price of $689,771. That average sits below the average sale price because the two figures describe different groups of homes: the listed figure covers homes newly put on the market in September, while the sale figure covers homes that closed, many of which were listed earlier and at higher prices.

The combination — a month of sales, a month on market of about five weeks, and sales at full asking price — points to a market that is moving steadily rather than stalling or surging. Sellers are, on average, getting what they ask; buyers are taking a little over a month to close.

September's numbers arrive as Brookfield heads into the slower late-fall season, when listings typically thin out and the homes that do come to market tend to be priced for a sale before winter. For anyone watching the town's housing market, the next monthly update will show whether October kept September's pace or cooled with the weather.

The figures cover single-family homes only, as reported in the September trends summary. They are averages, not medians, so a small number of high-priced sales can pull the average above what a typical Brookfield home sells for.