The median price for a single-family home in Marin County returned to the record threshold of $1.2 million, a real estate research firm reported Wednesday.

The benchmark for April matched the peak reached last May and June, according to Irvine-based CoreLogic. The new median price was a 14.3 percent increase over April 2016.

Sales of single-family homes dipped slightly, from 262 in April 2016 to 259 last month.

In the Marin condo market, median prices dropped nearly 10 percent over the year, from $590,000 to $533,500. Condo sales increased from 50 to 60.

CoreLogic analyst Andrew LePage said overall home sales in Marin are 13 percent below average for the month of April over the past 30 years.

Patti Cohn, a Marin agent with Pacific Union and Christie’s International Real Estate, said the low inventory has properties moving quickly at more than asking price. She said the market is seeing pent up demand this spring after the distraction of the presidential election and then an especially rainy winter.

“Who knows what the second half of the year’s going to do,” Cohn said. “I think we’re going toward a more normal market, but we’re not in it yet. It’s still really tight.”

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Robert Eyler, chief economist for the Marin Economic Forum, said “the basic themes are that demand remains strong as supply is better but not rising rapidly, driving prices and supporting them at relative high levels.”

“There are still parts of the Bay Area with people that bought in 2006 and 2007 that have not recovered their wealth in inflation-adjusted terms, but if you bought closer to the bottom, it has been a great run,” said Eyler, a professor at Sonoma State University. “Building permits do not suggest that new single-family homes are coming en masse, so the outlook for Bay Area housing remains good into 2018.”

Across the nine-county Bay Area, the median price for previously owned single-family homes climbed to a record $800,000 in April, CoreLogic reported. The prior record was $752,000 in June 2016.

In addition to Marin, record median prices were posted in Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in April.

Marin County’s single-family median price was the third highest in the Bay Area for April. San Mateo County hit $1.4 million and San Francisco reached $1,350,000, CoreLogic said.

In Sonoma County, the single-family home median was $585,000 last month, up 10.6 percent over the prior April.

Bay Area News Service contributed to this report