Two Days-on-Market Numbers, One House Feature

This report covers the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026. Two comparisons from that window are worth putting side by side: homes with air conditioning against homes without it, and this period's median sale price against where it stood a year earlier.

Start with air conditioning. Across the territory, homes with air conditioning had a median days on market of 36 days. Homes without air conditioning had a median days on market of 42 days. That is a six-day gap on the same clock, in the same window, across the same territory.

Now the price side of that same comparison. Homes with air conditioning had a median sold price of $430,000. Homes without air conditioning had a median sold price of $390,000. The pattern holds in both directions: air conditioning is tied to a faster sale and a higher price.

Put the two options in one frame. Option one is a home with air conditioning: it moves in about 36 days and tends to close near $430,000. Option two is a home without it: it moves in about 42 days and tends to close near $390,000. Scored on speed, air conditioning wins. Scored on price, air conditioning wins there too. Scored on certainty, both options sold in large enough numbers this period that neither result is a fluke.

The territory's overall median sale price this period was $419,900. A year earlier, the median sale price for the same territory was $399,000. That is a higher price this period than the same window last year.

The territory's median days on market this period was 38 days. Across the whole territory, homes sold in that median window regardless of feature, which is why the air-conditioning split matters: it shows two different experiences hiding inside one territory-wide number.

So who does this side-by-side actually favor? If you are a seller deciding whether to install or repair air conditioning before listing, this period's numbers say it is worth doing: a shorter time on market and a higher sale price both point the same direction. If you are a buyer touring homes without air conditioning specifically to save money, this period's numbers say that strategy has some support: the median price gap between the two groups was real, though it came with a longer wait to close.

One caveat belongs in the same breath as the win: a price and speed gap tied to a feature is not proof the feature alone caused it, since homes with air conditioning may differ from homes without it in other ways too. What is not in question is that the two groups, as sold this period, landed on different numbers.

What to watch next period: whether the six-day gap in days on market between air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned homes narrows, widens, or holds, and whether the territory's median sale price keeps building on this period's move above last year's $399,000 level. Those two figures, watched together, will say more about where this market is headed than either one alone.

Sourced from MLS sold data, Redfin ZIP-level aggregates via Listing Leads, for the twelve weeks ending August 30, 2026.

Trish