The story of this market
The typical home in ZIP 50539 sells for about $206,000, or $123 per square foot.
Prices are up +71.9% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 63 days to sell, which is slow. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $760 a month.
ZIP 50539 — Fenton
The housing market in ZIP 50539 is characterized by extremely low inventory and limited transaction volume. Market data for this specific ZIP is sparse, with regional trends from the broader Fort Dodge area indicating significant price volatility and a reliance on local, rural-market dynamics.
Median prices moved up 71.9% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 63 days on market with 0.0 months of supply — a balanced-paced market.
0% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 100% of asking — demand is running ahead of supply.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 12.8% · poverty 4.3% — a mixed stability profile.
ZCTA 50539, Iowa
ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Aggregate published statistics for this ZIP — never individual records, and never an attribute of any individual property or resident.
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. State (Iowa) — Iowa Property Tax Assessment Limitation: The taxable value is determined by applying an assessment limitation (rollback) to the assessed market value. The limitation is calculated annually to restrict the growth in aggregate taxable value for the residential class to 3% statewide.
Data retrieved from census.gov ZCTA 50539 profile
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Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.