536 homes closed in Byron Center schools over the past two years. Here is where they were.

I have lived in Byron Center for 17 years and pull this type of data several times per year. Most market updates stop at a district average. This one goes neighborhood by neighborhood, which is the version most people actually want.

Everything below comes from the 536 single-family homes that closed in the Byron Center school district between September 2024 and August 2026. Not regional averages. This district.

Where the activity is

The fifteen neighborhoods with the most closings. This is volume, not a ranking — a busy neighborhood is one where buyers already know what a home there is worth.

Median price and square footage cover all sales in the neighborhood, new and existing. Days to offer is for existing homes only, and shows a dash where every sale was new construction.

Three things the neighborhood view shows

Four numbers worth knowing before you list

1. Timing moves the number more than most people expect

Homes that went live in January or April held their original asking price about 61% of the time, and went under contract in eight to ten days. Listings that went live in September through November held it 32% to 39% of the time and waited three to four weeks. January also brought just 34 new listings against 82 in July — fewer competing sellers than any month but February and December — and still earned $294 per above-grade square foot, within $4 of the year's best month.

2. A finished lower level pays for itself. A half-finished one does not

Comparing homes at similar prices, a fully finished lower level sold in 8 days at 98.9% of the original asking price — the best result on both counts. An unfinished one took 15 days at 97.4%. A partially finished basement split the difference on speed at 12 days, but brought the least of any group relative to what was asked, 96.7%: it buys some attention and costs some price. Daylight basements also outperformed walk-outs, 10 days against 18.

3. Say what you updated. Buyers pay for what they can read

Among the 258 existing Byron Center homes built before 2010, the 133 whose listings described updates sold in seven days and held 99.7% of their original asking price. The 125 that mentioned none took eleven days and finished at 96.6% — three points further down. Same age of house, same district; the difference was whether the work was documented where a buyer could find it.

4. You are competing with fewer builder homes than you think

New construction fell from 25% of Byron Center sales to 19%. Builder homes do close higher — a $569,900 median against $528,700 — but they cost less per above-grade foot ($260 against $291), because you are paying for finished basements and mature lots on a resale. And they sit: 45 days to an offer, against nine for an existing home.

536 closed single-family sales in the Byron Center school district, September 2024 through August 2026; 404 of them carried a neighborhood in the MLS entry, and the remaining 132 are homes on unplatted parcels or with the field left blank. Medians unless noted; price per square foot is on above-grade finished area. The basement comparison holds price roughly constant by drawing on the middle half of resale prices, $412,100 to $619,900. Basement and update details are read from the MLS listing entry, so these show association rather than cause. Source: Realcomp MLS. Deemed reliable, not guaranteed.