From January through March of 2022, there were seven homes sold, with a median sale price of $310,000 - a 19.2% increase over the $260,000 median sale price for the same period of the previous year. There were five homes sold in Runnells in the first quarter of 2021.
The median sales tax in Runnells for the most recent year with available data, 2017, was $3,693, approximately 1.2% of the median home sale price for the first quarter of 2022.
The following table compares Runnells to other Polk County cities with similar median sale prices in the first quarter of 2022:
| City | Jan. - Mar. 2022 Home Sales | Jan. - Mar. 2021 Home Sales | % change (Total Home Sales) | Jan. - Mar. 2022 Median Sales Price | Jan. - Mar. 2021 Median Sales Price | % change (Median Sales Price) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granger | 8 | 12 | -33.3% | $377,700 | $320,000 | 18% |
| Johnston | 70 | 87 | -19.5% | $356,050 | $315,000 | 13% |
| Grimes | 70 | 84 | -16.7% | $319,500 | $236,000 | 35.4% |
| Runnells | 7 | 5 | 40% | $310,000 | $260,000 | 19.2% |
| Clive | 25 | 43 | -41.9% | $288,900 | $246,000 | 17.4% |
| Polk City | 27 | 34 | -20.6% | $282,000 | $271,000 | 4.1% |
| Ankeny | 278 | 326 | -14.7% | $279,950 | $247,750 | 13% |
| Bondurant | 37 | 23 | 60.9% | $265,000 | $229,900 | 15.3% |
| Pleasant Hill | 45 | 38 | 18.4% | $263,000 | $200,450 | 31.2% |
| West Des Moines | 143 | 201 | -28.9% | $243,000 | $234,000 | 3.8% |
| Urbandale | 120 | 157 | -23.6% | $239,250 | $217,020 | 10.2% |
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