Everyone Expected a Fast Summer Sale on Staten Island.The Median Home Took 105 Days.
Over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, Staten Island homes took a median 105 days to sell, yet sellers still captured about 98% of asking price, and no sale closed inside a week.
If you asked most people what a summer sale on Staten Island looks like, you'd hear the same story. Multiple offers within days. A sign-in sheet at the open house. A deal wrapped up before the buyer even unpacks their moving boxes.
That is the expectation. The measured reality over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, was different.
The median home across Staten Island took 105 days to go from listing to sale. Not a handful of days. Not a couple of weeks. Over three months. And across every closed sale in that window, not one moved from listing to pending inside seven days. The fast, frenzied sale that people picture simply did not happen this period.
72 sales · 10301, 10302, 10303, 10304, 10305, 10306, 10307, 10308, 10309, 10310, 10312, 10314
MLS sold data · Twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026
Here's the part that complicates the story. Sellers were not giving anything away to get there. The median sale-to-list ratio across the territory came in at about 98%, and 13% of sales closed above the asking price. Slow did not mean cheap. The typical home across the territory sold for $669,500. Buyers took their time, but they still paid close to what sellers asked.
That gap, patience without discount, is the story worth sitting with. A market can move slowly and still hold its price. Those are usually treated as opposites. Here, for this period, they ran side by side.
The slowness wasn't even across Staten Island. In one part of Staten Island, the median time to pending ran 93 days.
In another part of Staten Island, the same measure ran about 26 and a half days. Two readings, one metric, and a gap wide enough to describe two different housing climates sitting inside the same buy box.
Price told its own uneven story. In one Staten Island market, the median sale price climbed about 11% compared with a year earlier. In that same market, the average sale-to-list ratio slipped almost a full percentage point over the same comparison. Homes are fetching more there, and sellers are giving up a bit more ground to get the deal done. Rising price and rising concession showed up together, not as a contradiction, but as two sides of the same negotiation.
Not every part of the territory moved the same direction on price. In one Staten Island market, the median sale price fell almost 4% compared with a year earlier. Elsewhere in Staten Island, prices mostly held flat or edged up over the same comparison. One market cooling while its neighbors firmed is its own kind of signal. It says the slowdown in days on market did not touch every part of the territory the same way, and neither did price.
What does 105 days actually feel like for someone living through it? It means a listing that would have gone under contract in the first weekend last year is still fielding showings into its second and third month. It means a seller watching a slower pace needs to trust the process rather than read every quiet week as rejection. And it means a buyer who assumed they had no room to negotiate on timeline may have more of it than they think, even while the price itself holds firm.
If you're weighing whether to list on Staten Island right now, the lesson isn't to panic about the 105-day median. It's to price for the market that showed up this period, not the one from a faster season, and to expect the process to take longer even if the number at closing stays close to what you asked.
If you're buying, the same patience-without-discount pattern applies in reverse. Don't expect the price flexibility that a slow market usually implies. Sellers here held their ground on price even as timelines stretched.
What's worth watching from here is whether that zero share of quick sales stays at zero, or whether some corner of the territory starts producing fast closings again. A part of Staten Island breaking from 105 days toward something closer to 26 and a half days would be the first sign the slowdown is easing rather than settling in. Until then, treat the current pace, not last year's, as the one to plan around.
Figures are drawn from MLS sold data for Staten Island ZIP codes over the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026.