Rye's Sale Prices Just Had a Glow Up

A year ago, Rye was not the story. In the twelve weeks ending August 31, 2025, the median sale price there sat at $2,200,000, a respectable number in this territory but not a remarkable one. Plenty of towns in this buy box post prices in that range.

This window, that changed. In the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, Rye's median sale price rose to $3,100,000. That is not a rounding move or a mix quirk explained away. It is the only year-over-year price trend in the territory that cleared a strict statistical bar, according to MLS sold data, which means the desk can say this plainly: Rye got measurably more expensive.

Zoom out and the shift is bigger than Rye alone. Across the ten ZIP codes we track, homes sold rose to 917 this period, up from 779 a year ago. That is real volume behind the number, not a handful of outlier closings skewing a small sample.

The territory's median days on market also moved. Across the same ten ZIPs, homes sold rose to a median of 94 days this period. Sellers here are not rushing anyone. They are getting a better price and taking their time to get it.

Sale-to-list tells the rest of Rye's story. Rye's average sale-to-list ratio rose to 105.3% this period, and it climbed 3.9 percentage points compared with a year earlier. Sellers there are not just asking more. They are getting it, and then some.

For whom does this matter? If you own in Rye and have been waiting for a reason to think about listing, this window is that reason. A median that climbed from $2,200,000 to $3,100,000 over the same stretch a year apart is not noise. If you are shopping in Rye, understand you are competing in a market where sellers gained real leverage, not one holding flat.

Elsewhere in the territory, the picture is more mixed and worth watching on its own terms. In Yorktown Heights, the median sale price rose 7.14% year over year while the average sale-to-list ratio fell 3.3 percentage points compared with a year earlier, meaning buyers there are paying more even as sellers give a bit more ground at the table. In White Plains, the median sale price rose 11.6% year over year while the average sale-to-list ratio fell 1.2 percentage points compared with a year earlier, the same pattern in a different neighborhood.

Days to pending shows how differently the pieces of this territory can behave. Armonk's median days to pending runs 95 days this period. White Plains' median days to pending runs 39 days this period. One buy box, two very different paces of decision-making.

What to watch next: whether Rye's jump holds up over the next reporting window or settles back toward its historical range, and whether the sale-to-list gains seen there start showing up in the other high-price ZIPs that haven't cleared the same statistical bar yet. Steven Scarnati will be watching the next window closely.