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Median home values

Useful for reading an area. Not much use for pricing a house. Here is the difference, and how to get a figure that means something for yours.

Your property

Start with the address

Enter it here and you will carry it through to the evaluation request, where you can add the details that actually move a valuation. Martin or MaryEllen come back to you with a figure and the reasoning behind it. Nothing is calculated on this page.

This takes you to the evaluation request with the address filled in. No estimate is generated, and nothing is sent until you submit that form.

Reading the market

What a median home value tells you

It is the most quoted number in residential property and the most frequently misread. Four things worth knowing before you use one.

  • A median is the middle sale, not the average

    Line every sale in an area up by price and the median is the one in the middle. It is used instead of an average because a handful of waterfront sales would drag an average somewhere no ordinary house lives.

  • It describes an area, not your home

    Two properties on the same street can be worth very different amounts — one renovated, one not; one facing the water, one facing the road; one with a working roof and one without. A median cannot see any of that.

  • It moves with what happened to sell

    A quarter with several large sales lifts the median without any individual home being worth more. Read the direction over several periods rather than the change between two.

  • Condominiums and houses behave differently

    In South Florida a condominium median is shaped by building age, association finances and insurance in a way a single-family median is not. Mixing the two together tells you very little.

By area

Choose a city

We publish a figure for an area only once we can say where it came from and when it was measured. None of these carry one yet, so none is shown.

HollywoodBroward County

A coastal city in Broward County, between Fort Lauderdale and Hallandale Beach.

No sourced median is published for Hollywood yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Dania BeachBroward County

A coastal city in Broward County, immediately south of Fort Lauderdale.

No sourced median is published for Dania Beach yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Hallandale BeachBroward County

A coastal city in southern Broward County, on the Miami-Dade county line.

No sourced median is published for Hallandale Beach yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Fort LauderdaleBroward County

The county seat of Broward County, on the Atlantic coast.

No sourced median is published for Fort Lauderdale yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Pembroke PinesBroward County

An inland city in southwestern Broward County.

No sourced median is published for Pembroke Pines yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Cooper CityBroward County

An inland city in southwestern Broward County, between Davie and Pembroke Pines.

No sourced median is published for Cooper City yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

DavieBroward County

An inland town in central-western Broward County.

No sourced median is published for Davie yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

PlantationBroward County

An inland city in Broward County, west of Fort Lauderdale.

No sourced median is published for Plantation yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

AventuraMiami-Dade County

A city in northeastern Miami-Dade County, on the Broward county line.

No sourced median is published for Aventura yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Sunny Isles BeachMiami-Dade County

A barrier-island city in northeastern Miami-Dade County, south of the Broward line.

No sourced median is published for Sunny Isles Beach yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Miami BeachMiami-Dade County

A barrier-island city in Miami-Dade County, across Biscayne Bay from Miami.

No sourced median is published for Miami Beach yet. Rather than show a figure we cannot attribute, we will prepare one for your specific property — which is the number you actually need.

Looking for somewhere not listed? We work across Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties — ask us about your area.

Automated estimates

About the numbers other sites show you

Most property portals put an estimated value on your home, and you have probably already looked at yours. They are worth understanding rather than dismissing — and worth knowing the limits of.

An automated estimate is produced by a statistical model that looks at recorded sales of properties it considers comparable and adjusts for the differences it knows about. It is arithmetic over public data, and it is only as good as that data.

  • It works from recorded sales, public records and whatever the model can infer about size and condition — which is often out of date, and sometimes wrong.
  • It cannot see a renovation you have not permitted, a new roof, a tenant in place, or the fact that the house next door runs a business from the garage.
  • It is a statistical model over comparable sales — not artificial intelligence, and not a valuation.
  • Lenders do not accept one. A mortgage rests on an appraisal by a licensed appraiser.

This website does not generate one

There is no estimate tool on this site, and no figure is calculated anywhere on it. When we give you a number it is because a person looked at your property and at the sales it should be compared against, and can tell you which ones and why.

If market figures are published here in future, each one will carry the source it came from and the period it covers.

Your property

Get a figure for the home you actually own

No cost, no obligation to list, and no automated number. Martin or MaryEllen prepare an opinion of value from comparable sales and from the property itself — and they will show you their working.