Why Do Old Floresta Price Figures Run So Far Apart, and Which One Fits an Older House? Reading the Zillow Index, the Sold Median and the Census Value

How far apart are the Old Floresta price figures, and why?

Four price figures are on the table. The Census median owner value is $664,100, a five-year survey estimate with a margin of error of $30,557, or 4.6% of the value. Zillow's home value index is $737,289, updated April 30, 2026. Realtor.com's median listing price is $807,500, with key indicators as of March 2026. Redfin's median sale price is $854,630 for the three months ending August 2026. Realtor.com is the oldest page by month, and Redfin is the newest.

The figures rank in an order that fits their definitions. Zillow's index is 11.0% above the Census value. Realtor.com's median listing price is 9.5% above Zillow's index. Redfin's median sale price is 15.9% above Zillow's index and 28.7% above the Census value. An index smooths the typical home over time, an asking median shows what owners want, and a sold median shows what closed in a window, so the differences are partly a matter of what each measures.

The year-on-year changes are small except on one page. Zillow's index is up 0.7%, which implies about $732,164 a year before. Realtor.com's listing median is down 5.56%, which implies about $855,040 a year before, and down 4.99% on three years, which implies about $849,911 three years before. Redfin's sold median is up 5.3%, which implies about $811,614 a year before. The pages do not agree on direction, and the brief does not choose among them.

One Redfin figure is flagged. The page shows a median sale price per square foot of $479, up 40.6% on the year, which implies about $341 a year before. A rise of two fifths in the price per foot, alongside a median price up 5.3%, is not a believable change in what homes are worth. It points to a mix of homes in the sample, and the brief does not rely on it. Realtor.com's listing price per square foot is $457, down 1.08%, which implies about $462, and up 2.70% on three years, which implies about $445.

The Realtor.com page has its own flags. Its overview text calls the median listing price of $807,500 a median home sale price, and describes a monthly change of down 8.50% as a change in sale prices, when the same figure is shown for the listing price. The listing median is treated here as a listing price. The monthly figure implies about $882,514 the month before, and a move of that size may reflect a small number of listings.

A seller reading these figures should avoid a common trap. A median listing price is the middle of what owners are asking, and many listings never sell at that figure. A median sale price is the middle of what buyers paid, but only for the homes that closed in the period. An index is a smoothed estimate of the typical home. None of them describes a particular home. The only evidence that does is the closed sales of homes with the same type, size, age, condition and setting, and those are what a seller should ask to see before setting a price.

Sources as cited. Earlier values and differences are computed from the published percentages.

How fast do Old Floresta homes sell, and what do sellers get against asking?

The pages put the wait at between about three weeks and two months, and they measure different things. Redfin shows a median of 60 days on the market for the three months ending August 2026, against 75 a year before. Realtor.com shows a median of 45 days as of March 2026, down 38.36% on the year, which implies about 73 days a year before, and down 13.46% on three years, which implies about 52 days three years before. Zillow says homes go to pending in around 23 days.

The three figures are not the same measure. Redfin's median is for sold homes, and it counts days to a sale. Realtor.com's is for listings. Zillow's counts days to pending, which comes before closing. A pending date arrives sooner than a sale, so the three should not be set against each other as a ranking of the market. What they share is a direction: homes in this postal area do not wait for many months.

Sales settle below asking. Redfin shows a sale-to-list ratio of 96.4%, up 1.2 points, with 8.0% of homes sold above list, down 0.84 points. Realtor.com's ratio is 95%, with homes selling 5.03% below asking in February 2026. Redfin's compete score is 43, somewhat competitive, calculated over the last three months, and says the average home sells about 4% below list and goes pending in about 62 days, while hot homes sell about 1% below list in about 29 days.

Price cuts are common. Redfin shows 32.7% of homes with price drops, down 10.2 points on the year. That means about one home in three had a price cut in the period, and fewer than a year before. Realtor.com shows 134 active listings, down 19.18% on the year, which implies about 166 a year before, and down 3.28% on three years, which implies about 139. Set against 9,011 occupied homes, 134 listings equal 1.5%.

The Realtor.com page calls the market a buyer's market for February 2026 and also gives a market hotness index of 74, which it calls hot, with homes selling 25 days faster than the national average. The two labels pull in different directions, and the brief reports both. It also shows 134 rental properties, the same count as its listings, and a median rent of $2,528, which the brief treats with caution for that reason. For a seller, the practical reading is that homes sell within a couple of months on average, below list, with a third of them cutting their price first.

The spread around the median matters as much as the median. Some homes sell in weeks, while others sit for months and then cut their price. The pages report medians and not the spread, so a seller with a fixed date cannot read the risk of a long wait from them. A better guide is the days on market of homes of the same kind sold in the last year, which an owner can ask for and compare with the page figures here, and a seller with a fixed date can weigh that spread against a closing date set in advance.

Sources as cited. Earlier values are computed from the published percentages.

How old are the Old Floresta homes, and what mix of homes does the postal area hold?

Most of the stock was built between 1960 and 1989. Of 9,757 units, 45, or 0.5%, were built before 1940, 54, or 0.6%, in the 1940s, 260, or 2.7%, in the 1950s, 2,560, or 26.2%, in the 1960s, 2,815, or 28.9%, in the 1970s and 2,711, or 27.8%, in the 1980s. After that, 467, or 4.8%, were built in the 1990s, 616, or 6.3%, in the 2000s, 217, or 2.2%, in the 2010s and 12 in 2020 or later. Homes built before 1980 total 5,734, or 58.8%.

Most homes are detached. Of 9,757 units, 5,809, or 59.5%, are detached houses, 798 are attached houses, 220 are in buildings of two units, 302 in buildings of three or four, 565 in buildings of five to nine, 567 in buildings of ten to nineteen, 1,028 in buildings of twenty to forty-nine and 437 in buildings of fifty or more. The Census counts 31 mobile homes and no boats or recreational vehicles.

Vacancy is low. Of the 746 vacant units, 133 are for rent, 59 are rented but not yet occupied, 86 are for sale only, 16 are sold but not yet occupied, 281 are held for seasonal, recreational or occasional use and 171 are vacant for other reasons. Seasonal units are 2.9% of all units, a small share, so the postal area works mainly as a place of usual homes.

Age matters for a seller because a buyer's inspection tests the parts of an older house that wear out. The Census does not measure condition, and a house built in the 1960s can be well kept, so the brief makes no claim about any one home. What the age does show is that a typical listing here is a house with decades of use, where a buyer may ask for repairs or a lower price after an inspection, and where a direct sale without inspections or repairs may be worth weighing.

The median build year of 1977 is two years either way, so the middle of the stock sits in the late 1970s. The median owner value of $664,100 sits on homes of that age. Only the closed sales of homes of the same age, size and condition can show what a particular home would bring.

Detached houses are the largest group, but they are not the only one, and the mix matters when a seller reads a median. Townhouses, attached homes and units in small and large buildings sit in the same postal area, and each sells on its own terms. A seller of a detached house built in the 1960s should look for the sales of detached houses of that age, not the median of the whole postal area, because a median that blends all types describes none of them well.

Sources as cited. Shares are computed from the Census counts.

Who lives in Old Floresta, and how heavy is housing cost?

The population is 23,232, with a margin of error of 1,719. Of those, 5,224 are under 18, 22.5%, 2,018 are 18 to 24, 8.7%, 1,892 are 25 to 34, 8.1%, 3,268 are 35 to 44, 14.1%, 6,190 are 45 to 64, 26.6%, and 4,640 are 65 or older, 20.0%. Children under 18 are more than a fifth of the population.

Of 9,011 occupied homes, 6,533, or 72.5%, are owned and 2,478, or 27.5%, are rented. Owners lean to three and four bedrooms: of 6,533, 2,920 have three, 44.7%, 1,745 have four, 1,416 have two, 346 have five or more, 106 have one and no owner home is without a bedroom. Renters lean to two and three bedrooms: of 2,478, 936 have two, 862 have three, 392 have one, 186 have none and 102 have four.

Of 6,533 owner homes, 197 moved in during 2023 or later and 660 in 2020 to 2022, together 13.1%. A further 2,547 moved in during the 2010s, 1,210 in the 2000s, 1,145 in the 1990s and 774 earlier, so 29.4% have been in place since before 2000. Renters are newer: of 2,478, 47.4% moved in during 2020 or later.

Housing cost is heavy for renters and for some owners. Of 2,478 renter homes, 189 have no computed rent share, and of the remaining 2,289, 1,407, or 61.5%, pay 30% or more of income on rent and 810, or 35.4%, pay 50% or more. Among owners with a mortgage, 1,392 of 3,802, or 36.6%, pay 30% or more and 634, or 16.7%, pay 50% or more. Of 2,731 owners without a mortgage, 635 of 2,589 computed, or 24.5%, pay 30% or more. The Census margins on these counts are wide.

The median household income is $105,540, with a margin of error of $14,140, and the median gross rent is $2,318, plus or minus $250. At the point estimates, the median owner value is about 6.3 times the median household income. Realtor.com's median asking rent of $2,528 is 9.1% above the Census median gross rent, and asking rents on active rentals are not the rents of all renters.

The share of renters among occupied homes, 27.5%, is a reminder that a sizable part of the postal area is a rental market. Realtor.com shows 134 rental properties, down 7.53% on the year, and a median asking rent of $2,528. The sources do not say who owns the rented homes or how long they are rented, so the brief makes no claim about that. For an owner, the point is that the cost of renting sits beside the cost of owning, and both bear on where a household moves next. Readers comparing markets can also read the Tavernier brief and the Palma Ceia brief.

Sources as cited. Shares and ratios are computed from the Census counts.

What should an Old Floresta owner ask before choosing a listing or a private sale?

A seller should keep four questions apart. What do closed sales of homes of the same age, size and condition show? How many weeks might a listing take, with sales settling below asking and about one home in three cutting its price first? What would inspections and repairs cost on a house of this age? And what date does the owner need to close? The first question is about price, the second about time, the third about cost and the fourth about the next home.

For illustration only, a total commission of 1%, 3% or 5% on a sale of $450,000 would be $4,500, $13,500 or $22,500. On $725,000 it would be $7,250, $21,750 or $36,250, and on $1,200,000 it would be $12,000, $36,000 or $60,000. At the Census median owner value of $664,100, the same percentages come to $6,641, $19,923 and $33,205. These are arithmetic and not quoted rates, since commissions are negotiated.

The five benefits of a private sale to Maison Off-Market are privacy, because there are no showings and no neighbors talking about the sale, closing dates that can be flexible and give time to find a new home, no commission costs, no closing costs and no inspections or repairs. For an owner of an older house, the last of these may matter most, since a repair request after an inspection can change a price late in a sale. The brief does not claim a private sale always beats a listing.

Maison Off-Market buys luxury homes and estates directly from their owners and speaks only to sellers. An owner who wants to see what a direct purchase would look like, with no public listing and no showings, can use the contact form below and ask for an offer before deciding.

Sources as cited. Fee figures are arithmetic and not quoted rates.

Methodology and limitations

Each page's date, title and place were read before use. The Realtor.com page has key indicators as of March 2026, with charts through February 2026, so it is the oldest source. The Zillow page was updated on April 30, 2026, and the Redfin page covers the three months ending August 2026. The Redfin price per square foot, up 40.6% in a year, is flagged as implausible, and its sold count of 90 against 90 a year before does not match its stated change of down 0.52%. The Realtor.com overview text labels the listing median a sale price, its rental property count equals its active listing count, and the page calls the market both a buyer's market and hot. The Realtor.com neighborhood tables list named communities and were not relied on. The Census figures are five-year survey estimates with margins of error, wide for the cost-burden counts. Earlier values are computed from published percentages and are approximate. No figure here is a forecast.

Conclusion

The record for Old Floresta, as far as the pages allow, is an older, mostly owner-occupied postal area where the price figures differ by definition and date, where homes sell within about one to two months and below list, and where a third of homes cut their price first. For an owner of an older house, the practical step is to ask for the closed sales of comparable homes, compare the cost and risk of a listing with a direct offer, and decide how much of the showing, inspection and timing risk to carry.