Seller’s DeskNational
Selling Your Home Off-Market, What You Gain and What You Trade
Privacy, no repairs and a closing date you choose, in exchange for fewer buyers bidding. How an off-market sale works for owners, and how to judge an offer.
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Address District buys homes directly from owners in 1,192 neighborhoods and towns across 39 states. No listing, no open houses, no repairs, and a closing date you choose.
Older Home IndexNational
Palma Ceia, Old Naples and Truckee Lead the Older Home Index
The Address District Older Home Index ranks 1,192 neighborhoods and towns in 39 states by the number of homes built in 1980 or earlier. Tampa, Naples and Truckee lead it.
Older Home IndexFlorida
Palma Ceia, Old Naples and Coconut Grove Put Florida Atop the Older Home Index
Florida has more neighborhoods in the index than any other state, and more near the top, from Tampa’s Palma Ceia to Miami’s Coconut Grove and Pinecrest.
Older Home IndexNational
Arcadia, Paradise Valley and Belle Meade Lead the Sunbelt’s Older Neighborhoods
Arizona has four neighborhoods in the top 25 of the Older Home Index and Tennessee has two. In Brentwood, the largest sample in the index, most homes are newer.
Older Home IndexNational
Westport, Needham and Southampton Lead the Northeast’s Older Neighborhoods
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts have 189 neighborhoods and towns in the index. Westport ranks highest, at 18th, and central Greenwich counts 11 older homes of 12.
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How an Off-Market Home Sale Works, Step by Step
From the first conversation to the keys, what happens when you sell directly to a buyer, and what to ask at each stage.
The Older Home Index
1,192 neighborhoods and towns ranked by the number of older homes, those built in 1980 or earlier.
1,192
ZIP codes
In 39 states
3,937
Older homes
Of 8,028 homes sampled, built 1980 or earlier
49.0%
Share of older homes
Full sample 37.6% of 10,474 homes
23.1%
Older vs new
Median older home price as a share of new construction
Florida
Leading state
963 older homes in 202 ZIP codes
Older homes by state
The 10 states with the most older homes in the Older Home Index. Florida alone accounts for 24.5% of all older homes in the index. Hover or tab through the bars for sample sizes.
Source. Address District Older Home Index, homes built in 1980 or earlier. How the index works.
Older homes1 to 910 to 4950 to 149150 to 399400 or moreNot in the index
Leading states
No. 1 by older homes
Florida
No. 2 by older homes
California
No. 3 by older homes
Arizona
No. 4 by older homes
North Carolina
No. 5 by older homes
Colorado
No. 6 by older homes
Georgia
Older Home Index
In Sevierville, Cashiers and Truckee, Older Homes Sell Far Below New Construction
In 27 neighborhoods with at least 10 homes in the sample, older homes averaged a fifth of the price of new construction or less. What that gap means when you sell.
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Older Home Index
Truckee, Santa Rosa and Manhattan Beach Lead California’s Older Neighborhoods
California has 177 ZIP codes in the Older Home Index but only five in the top 100. Truckee ranks third nationally, and California’s older homes hold more of their price against new construction.
2 min read
Older Home Index
In Arden, Castle Rock and Troon, Older Homes Outprice New Construction
In most of the index, older homes sell for a fraction of new ones. In a dozen neighborhoods, from Arden, North Carolina, to North Scottsdale, the sample shows the reverse.
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Older Home Index
In Birmingham, Wilmette and Biscayne Park, Every Home Sampled Was Built Before 1981
Birmingham, Michigan, and Wilmette, Illinois, lead a short list of neighborhoods with at least eight homes sampled, every one built in 1980 or earlier.
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Architecture
Westport’s 17 Places on the National Register
From an 18th-century farmhouse to a 1958 modern house, the town’s listed buildings and districts, in the order they joined the register.
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Open Door
Open Door at the Allen House, Westport’s Miesian Survivor
Designed in 1958 by a protégé of Mies van der Rohe and listed on the National Register in 2010, the house on Burritt’s Landing is a rare intact piece of Westport’s modern period.
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Architecture
Stone, Glass and the Wrecking Ball
Nearly four centuries of building in Westport, from the Kings Highway colonials to Frazier Forman Peters’s stone cottages to the modern houses the town lost and the ones it kept.
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Architecture
The Paul Rudolph House Westport Lost
In 2007, after the National Trust and the state’s attorney general intervened, the Micheels House on Minute Man Hill was demolished. It was the first Rudolph house lost after the architect’s death.
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Open Door
The Summer the Fitzgeralds Rented on Compo Road South
In 1920 the newly married F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald leased the Wakeman Cottage, a 1758 Colonial on Compo Road South. A century later the house has changed hands at prices the couple could not have imagined.
2 min readNo. 1 nationally
Palma Ceia and Sunset Park
No. 2 nationally
Old Naples, Port Royal and Aqualane Shores
No. 8 nationally
Downtown Boca and Boca Raton Riviera
No. 11 nationally
West Palm Beach
No. 12 nationally
Marco Island
No. 3 nationally
Truckee
No. 33 nationally
Santa Rosa
No. 71 nationally
Manhattan Beach
No. 89 nationally
La Quinta
No. 100 nationally
Brentwood
No. 6 nationally
Arcadia and Camelback East
No. 10 nationally
Paradise Valley Core
No. 17 nationally
Kierland, Scottsdale Airpark and Magic ZIP
No. 22 nationally
Troon and Desert Mountain
No. 35 nationally
Lake Havasu City
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Is the house on sewer or septic?
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3 min read
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Furnished or Empty? What the Staging Data Says
| Neighborhood | Older vs new |
|---|---|
| Sevierville 37876, TN | 5.2% |
| Cashiers 28717, NC | 7.5% |
| Truckee 96161, CA | 10.6% |
| Marathon 33050, FL | 10.6% |
| Lake Las Vegas and Cadence 89011, NV | 11.1% |
| Carson City 89705, NV | 12.8% |
| El Dorado Hills 95762, CA | 13.0% |
| Kailua-kona 96740, HI | 13.6% |
| Koloa 96756, HI | 13.9% |
| Blue Ridge 30513, GA | 14.1% |
ZIP codes with at least 10 homes in the sample. Older home price as a share of new construction.
| Neighborhood | Rate |
|---|---|
| Truckee 96161, CA | 92.5% |
| Greensboro 30642, GA | 87.5% |
| North Hills 27609, NC | 85.7% |
| Belle Meade and West Meade 37205, TN | 85.4% |
| Kierland, Scottsdale Airpark and Magic ZIP 85254, AZ | 85.2% |
| Pinecrest and North Pinecrest 33156, FL | 84.0% |
| Coconut Grove 33133, FL | 83.3% |
| West Palm Beach 33405, FL | 81.6% |
| Marco Island 34145, FL | 78.4% |
| Palma Ceia and Sunset Park 33629, FL | 77.4% |
ZIP codes with at least 20 homes in the sample. Share of homes built in 1980 or earlier.