--- canonical: "https://caiolafinehomes.com/insights/market-update/fairfield-county-market-report-july-2026" tenant: "fairfield" brand: "Matt Caiola Luxury Properties" category: "Market Update" category_slug: "market-update" title: "Fairfield County Market Report: July 2026" author: "Matt Caiola" published_at: "2026-08-03T18:00:00Z" generated_at: "2026-08-04T04:27:43.529Z" last_modified: "2026-08-04T02:55:52Z" --- # Fairfield County Market Report: July 2026 _Published 2026-08-03 — Market Update — by Matt Caiola_ The July numbers are in. Across the nine towns I cover, Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, New Canaan, Westport, Fairfield, Norwalk, Wilton, and Ridgefield, 392 single-family homes transacted last month at a median sale price of $1,462,500. The summer market kept most of its spring momentum while giving buyers slightly more room to work. Here is what the data shows, and what it means if you have a move in mind this fall. ## July by the Numbers Single-family sales, July 1 through 31. SmartMLS data pulled August 3, 2026. Closed sales: 392, up from 355 in July 2025, a 10.4% increase. Median sale price: $1,462,500, up 5.4% from $1,387,500 a year earlier. Price per square foot: $492 at the median, up 7.7% from $457 last July. Days on market: a median of 17 days, compared to 13 a year ago. Over asking: 67% of July's sales closed above list price, up from 63% last July. Supply: 478 homes currently on the market as of August 3, about a month and a half of inventory at the current market pace, with another 571 under contract. ## What Moved, and What to Make of It The 5.4% gain in median sales price needs a minor footnote, because July 2025 set a high bar as it was the strongest month of the summer. Widen the window and the trend is easier to see: May through July of this year ran 10.7% ahead of the same three months of 2025. Prices are still rising. The distance between the median's sales price increase of 5.4% and the price per-foot increase of 7.7% is a mixed story. July's buyers closed on somewhat smaller homes than last July's, which holds the headline median down even as the price of each square foot rises. Seventeen days is still fast by any historical standard, but it is four days slower than last July, and it fits a pattern that has held all year: buyers compete hard for the right listings and let mispriced assets sit. The homes still unsold have been on the market a median of about 40 days. In a market where the typical sale takes 17, that gap is usually about price, not the house. The closing calendar is already spoken for well into September: 571 homes were under contract when I pulled this data, each one a sale working towards a notch in the closed column. ## Around the Nine Towns The medians below cover a full year of sales, not just July. A single month in a single town can be as few as two dozen closings, too small a sample to price a market on, so each town is quoted on its trailing twelve months, with July's sale count alongside to show where last month's business was. New Canaan: twelve-month median $2,750,000; 23 sales closed in July. Darien: $2,710,000; 34 closed. Westport: $2,425,000; 46 closed. Greenwich: $2,300,000; 23 closed. Wilton: $1,420,000; 38 closed. Ridgefield: $1,200,000; 33 closed. Fairfield: $1,156,000; 74 closed. Stamford: $976,000; 63 closed. Norwalk: $810,000; 58 closed. July's biggest sale was a Greenwich estate of just over 11,000 square feet that closed at $14.6 million. Darien was the busier story at the top of the market: three of the month's five largest sales closed there, led by one at $13 million. At the other end of the table, Fairfield led the county on volume for another month with 74 closings. Condominiums get their own line. 118 closed in July at a median of $517,500, up 4.8% from $494,000 a year ago. ## If You Are Buying or Selling This August Two out of three July sales closed above asking, so sellers are still setting the terms. What has changed is what buyers will chase. The homes that sold in July went in 17 days. The ones still sitting have been on the market a median of about 40 days, the reason almost always being that they were listed too high. If you are planning to list your home this month, work from what has closed since May, not from a neighbor's asking price or a headline from March. If you are buying, the same 17 days cuts two ways. It confirms the market still moves fast on a well-priced home. It also means the typical sale gives you more than two weeks to see the house twice and make a decision you will not second-guess. That is plenty of time for a prepared buyer, and not nearly enough for the unprepared one. Preparation includes financing (pre-approval), priorities already settled, and a firm sense of your ceiling and the monthly payment that accompanies it before the right listing appears. These numbers describe the market. They do not price your house, and they do not tell you what to offer on the one you want. That takes a closer look at the home in question, the comps, and your situation. When you are ready for that conversation, reach out. A note on methodology: every figure above represents single-family home closings reported to SmartMLS for the nine towns named at the top, pulled August 3, 2026 unless otherwise specifically noted. Medians are used throughout the report to avoid averages getting pulled around by a handful of outliers. Greenwich MLS listing activity is not included in these figures, which draw exclusively from SmartMLS, so Greenwich sales figures may be incomplete. ## Citation - Canonical URL: https://caiolafinehomes.com/insights/market-update/fairfield-county-market-report-july-2026 - Tenant: Matt Caiola Luxury Properties - Category: [Market Update](https://caiolafinehomes.com/insights/market-update)