Everyone Assumes This Market Cooled Off. The Sales Data Says Otherwise.

People keep telling me the market's slowing down. Fewer bidding wars, buyers taking their time, sellers getting nervous. I hear it at open houses, I hear it at the gym.

Here's what the data actually says.

For the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026, the median home across the territory sold in 64 days. A year earlier, over the same twelve-week stretch, that number was 69 days. That's not a market losing steam. That's a market moving faster than it did last summer.

The median sold price for the territory came in at $1,350,000 this period. And sellers aren't leaving money on the table to get there: the median sale-to-list ratio rose to 103.7%, meaning the typical home is selling above its asking price, not below it.

Zoom into individual towns and the pace question gets more interesting. In Westport, the median days to pending ran 69 days this period. In Stamford, one of the three zips there ran just 11 days to pending. Same twelve weeks, same county, two completely different paces. If you're picturing "the market" as one thing, you're missing the story.

Not every town is telling the same price story, either. In Stamford, one zip saw its median sale price fall about 19% year over year. That same zip saw its average sale-to-list ratio climb about 1.5 percentage points. Homes there are selling for less, but sellers are giving up less ground to get the deal done. That's not a contradiction. That's a smaller, tighter market clearing at its own price point.

Weston shows a similar pattern. Its median sale price dropped about 2% year over year. Its average sale-to-list ratio, separately, rose about 4.5 percentage points there. Buyers in Weston aren't getting a discount on negotiating room, even if the headline price ticked down.

Fairfield tells the same version of that story. Its median sale price fell about 4% year over year. Its average sale-to-list ratio rose about 1.4 percentage points there.

So what do you do with this if you're the one deciding whether to list or keep waiting? If you own in a town where days to pending are still short, sitting on the sidelines because you heard the market "cooled" is costing you a fast, competitive sale. If you're in a slower corner of the county, the data says patience is normal there, it's not a sign something's wrong with your house.

What I'll be watching next: whether that sale-to-list number keeps climbing into fall, or whether this was late-summer buyers making up for a slow spring. One more period of data will tell us which.

If you want to know what these numbers mean for your specific street, that's a conversation, not a spreadsheet. Ask me.

Tara