{"id":185417,"date":"2026-04-04T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185417\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:34:08","slug":"housing-prices-now-rivaling-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185417\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Prices Now Rivaling NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Westchester and Rockland County communities have long drawn NYC buyers looking for the larger spaces and better prices of suburban living, but PropertyShark\u2019s newest report has found that a decade of surging prices in the suburbs has flipped that dynamic. Median sale prices across NYC\u2019s 13-county suburban ring jumped 86% since 2016, double NYC\u2019s gains, with both Westchester and Rockland County part of that shift.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This explosive appreciation has effectively wiped out entry-level markets: Today, no communities in Westchester or Rockland are priced under $400K. One in three sales have crossed the one million dollar mark, which is up from one in ten in 2016.\u00a0 In fact, 29% of markets in this part of the Lower Hudson Valley now sit between $500K and $750K. Meanwhile, more than one in three suburbs in this area crossed the $1M mark \u2014 up from roughly one in ten in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Among the most dramatic pricing shifts, Spring Valley homeowners\u2019 access surged from 47 NYC neighborhoods to 143 over the past decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">White Plains buyers now reach 168 NYC neighborhoods, up from 160 in 2016, gaining access to places like Yorkville and College Point.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Even on the region\u2019s lower pricing range buying power increased compared to the city: West Haverstraw residents\u2019 buying power now reaches 29 NYC neighborhoods, compared to just nine in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This issue has become an increasingly stressful one for seniors and young people looking to live close to where they grew up.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone size-full wp-image-60674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/city400_20-_20Rockland_20County_20New_20York_1200x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"804\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westchester and Rockland County communities have long drawn NYC buyers looking for the larger spaces and better prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4022,17861,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-185417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-featured-news","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}