Recent Median Sale Price (parcels)

Source

County assessor records · vintage 2024 · refresh cadence: monthly

Median of last sale price across town parcels. Strong national coverage where parcel_details has sale data: NJ/CO/CT/FL/MA/MD (~60-80% of parcels).

Direction of better

Higher values are better. Used to rank candidate towns/properties; higher score = stronger fit.

Unit

Values are reported in dollars.

Default weight in Appreciation composite

8% of the Appreciation composite by default. Users can override this weight in their intake; the displayed score reflects the user's chosen weighting, never a fixed default.

Where the data lives

Tables: parcel_details, redfin_market_data

Columns: sale_price_1, sale_year

Input field: parcel_recent_sale

JSON-LD example

Every value emitted by ValiFit (in /api/v1, MCP responses, on-page JSON-LD) carries a propertyID set to this metric_id, so AI clients can resolve it back here in one round-trip.

{
  "@type": "PropertyValue",
  "propertyID": "appreciation.recent_median_sale_price_parcels",
  "name": "Recent Median Sale Price (parcels)",
  "value": 350000,
  "unitText": "dollars",
  "additionalProperty": [
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "composite",
      "value": "Appreciation"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "level",
      "value": "city"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "direction",
      "value": "higher_better"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "source_year",
      "value": "2024"
    },
    {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "name": "fha_safe",
      "value": true
    }
  ],
  "valueReference": {
    "@type": "QuantitativeValue",
    "additionalType": "https://valifit.com/catalog/metric",
    "identifier": "appreciation.recent_median_sale_price_parcels",
    "sameAs": "County assessor records"
  },
  "mentions": [
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "@id": "https://valifit.com/sources/county-assessor",
      "identifier": "COUNTY_ASSESSOR",
      "name": "County Assessor + Recorder Data",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_States",
      "sameAs": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax_in_the_United_States",
      "creator": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "name": "County tax assessors (3,144 US counties)"
      },
      "temporalCoverage": "continuous",
      "dateModified": "2026-05-11"
    }
  ]
}