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For decades, the move to the suburbs was New York ’s great pressure release valve. Ditch the 500-square-foot apartment, grab a backyard, cut your monthly nut in half. Simple math. Reliable math. report, obtained by The Post, tracking 13 counties across the suburban ring around New York City finds that home prices have surged a jaw-dropping 86% since 2016.
That outpaces gains in all five boroughs and effectively torches the affordability calculus that sent generations of city dwellers packing for Westchester, Nassau and beyond.Luxe NYC condo has seen homes languishing for years in decade since it launched — it lacks 1 thing other buildings don’tPrices across the 13-county commuter belt have surged 86% since 2016 — roughly double the pace of gains in the city itself.The bottom rung is gone. Entirely. Suburbs priced below $250,000 don’t exist in this market anymore. Those under $500,000 are a rounding error. Nearly half the region — 43% of suburban communities — now sits in the $500,000-to-$750,000 band. And roughly one in four suburban markets now carries a median above $1 million, a figure that would have seemed delusional a decade ago. The names tell the story. Scarsdale and Greenwich were always expensive. Now they’re simply in a different stratosphere. That rapid rise has all but erased the low end of the market: no suburbs remain under $250,000, and only a sliver still fall below $500,000.But the real shock is what happened to the towns that weren’t supposed to be luxury markets. Maplewood, New Jersey — once a solidly middle-tier commuter town — crossed the $1 million median threshold, a reflection of sustained demand for transit-accessible communities that city buyers can now barely reach. Meanwhile, Nassau County’s median single-family sale price hit $795,000, up nearly 6% in a single year, while Suffolk matched a record high of $680,000 — up 13% year over year.Communities like Asbury Park and Carteret, which offered sub-$250,000 footholds as recently as 2016, are gone from that category entirely. Shelton and Ridgefield Park, once the reliable middle tier, have been repriced upward. Even Westchester’s relative bargains have evaporated. Rye’s median now surpasses the sale price of 237 New York City neighborhoods, including Dumbo and the Flatiron District. The suburbs didn’t just get more expensive. They got more expensive than the city they were supposed to be the escape from. The priciest? Alpine, NJ ; Sea Girt, NJ ; Sands Point, NY and Spring Lake, NJ .Even Manhattan buyers, which is historically the city’s most insulated, with the widest range of options and the deepest pockets have watched their suburban reach shrink. Neighborhoods that were once comfortably attainable, including some of the region’s more upscale enclaves, have moved out of range. For Brooklyn, the squeeze is worse. Buyers there are now locked out of roughly a third of suburban markets — up sharply from 10 years ago. Queens and Staten Island residents are clinging to a shrinking pool: only about two in five suburbs remain financially viable, down from more than half in 2016. And at the lowest end of the income spectrum — buyers from parts of The Bronx and Queens — the situation has crossed from difficult to categorical. There is now no suburb in the 13-county region they can afford.The PropertyShark data shows approximately 100 suburban communities have seen their median sale price at least double over the past decade. That is a market-wide reset, not an anomaly.New York City spent the better part of the pandemic watching residents leave for suburban square footage, driving up prices in the very markets those residents were fleeing to.Now those same suburbs have priced out the next wave — the buyers who waited, who stayed, who figured the window would eventually reopen. It hasn’t. And by the data, it’s not about to.Luxe NYC condo has seen homes languishing for years in decade since it launched — it lacks 1 thing other buildings don’tTiger Woods’ PGA peers push for ‘accountability’ after golf icon’s DUI arrestPrices across the 13-county commuter belt have surged 86% since 2016 -- roughly double the pace of gains in the city itself.That rapid rise has all but erased the low end of the market: no suburbs remain under $250,000, and only a sliver still fall below $500,000.Former Tiger Woods employee blasts golf pro as 'terrible driver,' reveals why he likely refused urine sample after arrest Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice’ on Hulu, an Eyeball-Crossing Time Travel / Gangster / Rom-Com Led by Vince Vaughn
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