Valley Stream, NY Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

Valley Stream closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last 12 months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 280
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $755,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $491
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $660,000 and $845,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 280 closed sales in Valley Stream over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $755,000. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $660,000 and $845,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 85% of the Valley Stream closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 277 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $439 and $558 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Valley Stream, NY (September 2026)

The median home price in Valley Stream is $755,000, measured across the 280 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $660,000 and $845,000.

Where Valley Stream sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Valley Stream over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $660,000 and $845,000. Among the 45 New York markets with a published band, Valley Stream's middle-half spread ($660,000 to $845,000) ranks 1st from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 2nd percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 31 days, across 218 Valley Stream closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 65 days, across 217 Valley Stream closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Valley Stream angle

Valley Stream returned 280 tracked closings over the last 12 months, with a median of $755,000 and a middle half between $660,000 and $845,000. That band is among the tightest spreads we track, which is unusual at this price level and says something real about the housing stock: the closings look a lot like each other. When a market prices this consistently, the median stops being a rough average of dissimilar sales and starts behaving like a usable anchor. Your work then goes into the exceptions, because in a market this uniform an atypical property looks out of place quickly and needs matched sales to defend.

From market read to offer price

A tight market makes the next step easier: the citywide anchor sits close to most homes, and a report only has to explain the gap. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Valley Stream address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Valley Stream, NY
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3676705
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 280
Median sold price: $755,000
Median sold $/sqft: $491 (277 qualifying)
Property mix: 85% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Valley Stream over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is.