Chappaqua · September 2026
What sold in Chappaqua this year
The fall market opens, the figures for Chappaqua, and what the house needs before the cold sets in.
Market Intelligence
The Fall Market Opens in Chappaqua
The market here wakes up in the second week of September. Families who spent the summer thinking about it have made up their minds, the houses that were held back through August come out, and everyone is suddenly working to the same short calendar. There are about ten weeks between Labor Day and Thanksgiving in which a deal can still be agreed, inspected and closed before the year runs out.
Fall has a character of its own. Most people looking now have been at it since spring, so they know a good house the moment they walk into one, and they will not argue with a price that is wrong. There is less on the market than in May, and the people walking through it are harder to impress.
What follows is what actually closed in Chappaqua over the twelve months just ended. These are the same figures we publish on the town page, and they are the ones we would put in front of you if you asked what your own house is worth this fall.
The Market, Town by Town
What the Twelve Months Recorded
Closed single-family sales in Chappaqua over the twelve months just ended, recorded by OneKey® MLS. These are transactions, not estimates.
Median sale price
$1,615,000
Homes in Chappaqua sold at a median of $1,615,000 across 125 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 0.8% on a year earlier.
Measured separately: Homes in Chappaqua (School District) sold at a median of $1,600,000 across 153 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 3.4% on a year earlier.
Median sale price in Chappaqua, rolling twelve months, single family, January 2013 through July 2026, rising from $862,500 to $1,615,000 — 87 percent higher over thirteen years. The current reading is the series high; the low was $850,000 in April 2020.
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
Around the House
Around the House in September
The season turns fast here. Everything below is easier on a mild afternoon than it is the week after the first cold night.
- Have the heat looked at before you need it
- A boiler or furnace that sat idle all summer should be run and serviced now, on a warm afternoon. Service calls are answered the same week in September and not in November.
- Get ahead of the leaves
- Clear the gutters and the ground-level drains before the drop rather than after it. The fall storms tend to arrive before the leaves do, which is the order that overflows them.
- Close the gaps the cold will find
- Walk the outside of the house and look at where pipes, cables and vents pass through the wall. A few dollars of sealant at those points does more for a winter fuel bill than anything else you can do in an afternoon.
Advisory
Pricing a Fall Listing
A house that comes out in September is read against a shorter memory than one that comes out in April. The people looking now watched the spring market close. They know what sold and for how much, and they can tell an asking price from a real one at a glance. That is the whole case for pricing a fall listing where the market is, rather than above it with a plan to come down later.
Coming down is the expensive part. Cutting the price three weeks in tells everyone who passed that they were right to wait, and it spends a season that only had ten weeks in it to begin with. Houses that sell in the fall usually sell in the first two weeks, to someone who had already seen everything else.
So the preparation that matters is unglamorous. Find out what comparable houses actually closed at, not what they asked. Fix the two or three things a buyer will price against you and leave the rest alone. Then pick a number you would genuinely take on the first weekend, because in this season that is often when it comes.
A Personal Note
A First Word
This is the first of these letters, so let me say what it is meant to be. Once a month you will get the real figures for your own town, a few practical notes on the house, and one thing worth knowing if you are thinking about buying or selling. Nothing sent just because a month has gone by.
If there is something you would rather read about, or a question the figures above do not answer, write back. It comes to me, and I read it.
Anthony Clemenza, Founder
The September 2026 letter for Chappaqua. Luxury Realty International is a licensed real estate broker in the State of New York.
The full market picture for ChappaquaThe next one goes out at the start of the month
One letter a month about Chappaqua: what actually sold, the dates worth keeping, and what the house needs before the season turns.
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