From January through June of 2019, there were seven homes sold, with a median sale price of $35,000 - a 32% decrease over the $51,500 median sale price for the same period of the previous year. There were eight homes sold in Leaf River in the first half of 2018.
The median sales tax in Leaf River for 2019 was $1,899. In 2018, the median sales tax was $1,598. This marks an increase of 18.8%. The effective property tax rate, using the median property tax and median home sale price as the basis, is 5.4%.
The following table compares Leaf River to other Ogle County cities with similar median sales prices in the first half of 2019:
| City | Jan. - June 2019 Home Sales | Jan. - June 2018 Home Sales | % change (Total Home Sales) | Jan. - June 2019 Median Sales Price | Jan. - June 2018 Median Sales Price | % change (Median Sales Price) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe Center | 3 | 4 | -25% | $140,000 | $112,500 | 24.4% |
| Rochelle | 49 | 81 | -39.5% | $132,000 | $105,000 | 25.7% |
| Grand Detour | 6 | 5 | 20% | $129,250 | $145,000 | -10.9% |
| Stillman Valley | 9 | 9 | 0% | $129,000 | $132,000 | -2.3% |
| Hillcrest | 12 | 7 | 71.4% | $126,000 | $82,500 | 52.7% |
| Oregon | 33 | 32 | 3.1% | $100,000 | $78,000 | 28.2% |
| Mount Morris | 20 | 23 | -13% | $87,250 | $85,000 | 2.6% |
| Forreston | 10 | 16 | -37.5% | $82,250 | $67,500 | 21.9% |
| Polo | 20 | 25 | -20% | $80,000 | $70,000 | 14.3% |
| Creston | 3 | 7 | -57.1% | $50,000 | $120,000 | -58.3% |
| Leaf River | 7 | 8 | -12.5% | $35,000 | $51,500 | -32% |
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