Despite a countywide drop in the median home price last month, several areas within Pierce County managed slim to moderate gains. Below you’ll find last month’s price for 16 of the areas tracked by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service and how it compares to median prices in April 2007. The median means half sold for more and half sold for less.

Because I don’t provide numbers for areas that had less than 10 sales, you won’t find price changes for Anderson Island, where just two homes sold in April.

The biggest price increase came in Browns Point. The largest decline in year-over-year prices? Parkland.

Tomorrow I’ll provide closed sales numbers for some additional perspective. As a preview, three areas saw sales drop year-over-year by close to 50 percent. Overall, the county had an 18.9 percent decline in sales.

And later in the week I’ll give a detailed list of which areas are included in each of the 17 for which the MLS gives me stats each month. For example, the Roy area also includes McKenna and Harts Lake. And Gig Harbor also has stats for the Key Pensinsula, Fox Island and other parts of Pierce County.