The Least Expensive House in America’s Most Expensive Zip Code

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The Least Expensive House in America’s Most Expensive Zip Code

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The real estate market is on fire. Recently, the carefully followed S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index showed home prices rose 19.5% nationally in September compared to the same month last year. Among the large cities the survey covers, Phoenix had the largest increase at 33.1%.

This data is not out of step with other studies. People have migrated by the tens of thousands from expensive coastal cities like New York and San Francisco to less expensive cities inland. These smaller cities are not just less expensive. Many have a perceived better quality of life. Ironically, the rush of homebuyers to these places has driven up prices sharply.

PropertyShark recently released its Most Expensive U.S. Zip Codes in 2021. In turn, these data were reviewed by Point2.

Not surprisingly, the most expensive Zip codes in terms of home prices were heavily concentrated on the two coasts. This included 94027 (Atherton, California), 02199 (Boston) and 11962 (Sagaponack, New York). In 94027, The median sales prices for a home there this year were $7.475 million, $5.500 million and $5.000 million, respectively.
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As in every other Zip code, neighborhood or city, some homes cost well below the median for the area. Atherton’s 94027, the nation’s most expensive Zip code, has a home on the market for “only” $4,998,000. The address, for those who want it, is 16 Valley Road, Atherton.

These are the cheapest houses in America’s 20 most expensive Zip codes:

Zip Code Location Asking Price Median Sale Price
94027 Atherton $4,998,000 $7,475,000
02199 Boston $1,325,000 $5,500,000
11962 Sagaponack $1,400,000 $5,000,000
94957 Ross $6,500,000 $4,583,000
33109 Miami Beach $799,000 $4,475,000
90210 Beverly Hills $1,279,000 $4,125,000
93108 Santa Barbara $1,850,000 $4,103,000
90402 Santa Monica $579,000 $4,058,000
94022 Los Altos $950,000 $4,052,000
98039 Medina $3,250,000 $4,000,000
94024 Los Altos $2,498,000 $3,856,000
94301 Palo Alto $999,950 $3,800,000
11976 Water Mill $1,795,000 $3,745,000
90742 Huntington Beach $1,999,000 $3,625,000
92662 Newport Beach $4,500,000 $3,577,000
94970 Stinson Beach $4,500,000 $3,500,000
94028 Portola Valley $5,688,000 $3,400,000
92067 Rancho Santa Fe $1,995,000 $3,399,000
92657 Newport Beach $2,050,000 $3,365,000
92661 Newport Beach $2,200,000 $3,293,000

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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