Westport's Median Sale Price Just Rewrote the Summer Record

In the twelve weeks ending August 23, 2026, Westport's median sold price reached $2,520,000, up from $2,061,000 in the same window a year earlier.

A year ago, if you were pricing a home to sell in Westport, you had a rough sense of what a typical sale looked like. That sense doesn't hold anymore.

Twelve weeks of summer sales just moved the middle of this market somewhere it hasn't been before, and the shift is large enough that a house priced the way things were valued last year would now be priced wrong.

A year ago, over the same twelve-week stretch of summer, the median sold price in Westport was $2,061,000. This year, in the twelve weeks ending August 23, that median reached $2,520,000, up about 22% year over year. That's a real, statistically meaningful move, not the kind of wobble a market throws off on its own.

The shift didn't come from a thinner pool of sales, either. A year ago, 117 homes sold in Westport across that window. This year, 116 did, almost the same count. Whatever moved the median, it wasn't a case of only a handful of deals closing.

A median tracks the middle of what actually closed, not any one home's value. It can move because pricier homes sold, because fewer inexpensive ones did, or some combination of both. It never tells you what your own house would fetch; it tells you where the middle of the market stood this summer, and that's worth knowing on its own.

Not every home in Westport is chasing that new number the same way. A pool made a real difference this summer: homes with one sold for a median $3,500,000, compared with $1,875,000 for homes without. Air conditioning carried a similar split, $2,700,000 with it against $1,790,000 without. The market this summer wasn't one price, it was several, stacked by what a house actually offered.

Sellers also weren't quietly discounting their way to these numbers. Just over half of Westport's sales, about 53%, closed above the original asking price this summer.

If you're listing this fall, the comparable sales worth pulling are this summer's, not last year's. Anchoring to numbers that are twelve months old means leaving real dollars on the table before a showing ever happens. If you're buying, the math has shifted too: the middle of this market now sits well above two million, and budgeting to last year's figures will price you out of homes you could once have afforded.

What's worth watching from here is whether this median holds as more of this summer's contracts finish closing, or whether it eases back once a fuller season is on the books. That answer, not a guess made today, is what will tell us whether this summer was a genuine reset or one loud season.

The figures above come from MLS sold data for Westport, all residential property types, covering the twelve weeks ending August 23, 2026, compared with the same window a year earlier.

If you want to talk through what any of this means for your own address, I'm easy to reach.

Merry