Everything we have published, counted

The Numbers

Cut by count and not by dollar, so every boundary is a real listing price rather than a round number.

107

Houses featured

14

States

$8.5M

Median list price

$3.2M to $78.0M, across 107

$1,534

Median $ / sq ft

across 105

Median size

5,659 sqft

across 105

Median bed and bath

5 bd · 6 ba

across 107

Median lot

0.82 acres

across the 89 that publish one

Median year built

2003

across 102

New construction

6%

6 houses as flagged by the listing, across 107

Split in thirds by price

Cut by count and not by dollar, so every boundary is a real listing price rather than a round number, and the distance from one band to the next is only whatever the archive left there

What is in them

Share of the 107 houses we have featured, from our photo captions. The whole register →

Below 5 houses a feature prints its count and no share. A presence figure that thin reads as a fact about the market when it is a fact about one or two photographs

What comes with what

Each line clears its second feature’s own rate across the archive by at least 15 points, which is what keeps it a relationship rather than a restatement of whatever is common

Where they are

Of the 107 houses we have featured. Every state here has a page

The two ends of the archive

Prices as observed on the listing at publication

How to read this

These are the houses we chose to feature, not a sample of the market. The rubric takes listings above $3M, listed inside the week, and picks on how the photography reads. Take every figure here as a picture of what the top of the market looks like when somebody is trying to make it look good, and not as a picture of the market.

Feature shares come from our own photo captions. A house counts for a feature when that feature is in a photograph we published, which means these shares understate: a house can own a pool we never shot. We prefer that failure to the other one, because a caption cannot describe a hypothetical and a description can.

Nothing here is a trend. A trend needs the same house observed twice, and we have observed each of these once, at publication, so the page carries no direction and no change over time. It rebuilds with every listing we publish, which makes it exactly as current as the newest house on the site and no statement at all about the one before it.