Median sale price is the number that makes the news and the least useful one for deciding anything. It moves when the mix of what sold moves, not when your house changed value.
Watch months of inventory, the ratio of list to sale price, and days on market in your own price band. Those three, taken together, say whether you are in a market that rewards patience or punishes it.
They also disagree with each other often enough to be worth checking rather than assuming.
