NY & Connecticut December 2025 YTD Sales Data

This year started a little slower than the previous few. The NYC mayoral election and stubborn interest rates kept many on the sidelines while increasing Return to Office (RTO) mandates pushed active buyers tethered to commuter train lines and shorter commutes. Lower Fairfield and Westchester Counties are closing another record year as a result.

This coincides with the findings published in our recent 2026 Housing Market Outlook: older, affluent households are seeing wealth gains driven by strong equity markets while younger, lower-income borrowers face increasing financial pressures.

For these reasons, we see luxury home sales continuing to outperform entry-level properties in 2026. Sun Belt markets saturated with record inventory face the greatest home price pressures while Northeast and Midwest metros remain in an inventory-drought. This divergence means national averages will mask sharply differing realities at the local level throughout 2026.

As work from home is at the lowest level of the last five years, the most commutable to Manhattan are trending in line. Fairfield County, saw YTD median single-family sale prices increase 7.5% to $800,000 this past year with the majority of buyers from New York (69%). Median prices in Westchester & Nassau Counties are at parity, with Westchester trending resetting modestly (-.9% to $900,000 ) while Nassau was up 9.2% to $846,250.

Fairfield County Median Sales YTD 2025

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Some of the more notable Fairfield Market gains:

Greenwich Median Sales YTD 2025: Single-Family Median Closing prices are up another 9.9% this year to $3,150,000 (median price per sq ft of $826) across 473 transactions (up from 461 in 2024).

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Darien Median Sales YTD 2025

New Canaan Median Sales YTD 2025

Westport Median Sales YTD 2025

(Note - The Greenwich data in this table does not include Greenwich MLS - see below for separate Greenwich data):

Litchfield County, to the contrary, has a mix of weekenders/snow birds, remote workers and of a much larger population of businesses/professionals not tethered to Manhattan so the transaction count, median sale prices and demand have remained more range-bound with Washington and Roxbury showing the largest year over year volatility -26% and +22% respectively.

Litchfield County Median Sales YTD 2025

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