Live numbers for every shore town we cover: median sale prices, active inventory, and trend direction, from Cape May to Brigantine. Every figure on these pages is stamped with the date it was computed, because a market number without a date isn’t information.
The table below is sortable; click through any town for its full data page, including trailing trends and the written quarterly report.
[Sortable town table renders here: town · median price · active listings · trend · as-of date, each row linking to /market-data/{town}/.]
Where these numbers come from
We think you should know exactly how the numbers on this site are made, so here is the methodology in plain language:
The source is both shore MLSes. Our data comes directly from the two multiple listing services that cover this coastline: the Cape May County MLS and the South Jersey Shore Regional MLS. That matters because neither MLS alone covers every shore town completely; combining both is the difference between a sample and the actual market. Portals and estimate sites typically work from partial or delayed feeds; we work from the systems agents actually list in.
Refreshed daily. Statistics on these pages are recomputed every day from the latest MLS records. Listing counts on search pages update even faster (every 15 minutes), but the market statistics you see here are daily snapshots, and each one displays its “as of” date so you never have to guess how fresh a number is.
Medians, not averages, where it matters. For prices, we report medians: the middle value, where half of sales are above and half below. In shore towns, a handful of oceanfront sales can drag an average far above what a typical home costs; the median resists that distortion and better represents the market a real buyer or seller is in. Where an average is genuinely the right tool (or a count, or a rate), we label it as what it is.
What we compute, and from what. Medians and counts are calculated from MLS records for the stated town and period: sold statistics from closed sales, inventory from active listings. When a town has too few sales in a period to support a meaningful figure, we say so rather than publish noise from a tiny sample.
What we don’t do. No algorithmic price “estimates,” no modeled guesses about individual homes, no borrowed national statistics presented as local fact. If a number appears on these pages, it was computed from actual MLS records of this market, on the date shown.
Corrections and revisions. MLS records get corrected at the source (a sale re-reported, a status fixed), and our daily refresh picks those changes up, so a figure can revise slightly after first publication. That’s the data getting truer, and it’s why the date stamp matters.
Using this data
These pages are built to be cited: by buyers comparing towns, by sellers pricing realistically, and by anyone who wants shore market claims with a source and a date attached. If you’re deciding what a specific home is worth, data is the start, not the finish: a free valuation runs your address against live sold comparables from both MLSes, reviewed by a licensed local broker. And for the market context behind the numbers, each town’s page (Avalon, Ocean City, Stone Harbor, and the rest) pairs the statistics with written analysis, updated quarterly.
Statistics are computed from Cape May County MLS and South Jersey Shore Regional MLS records and are deemed reliable but not guaranteed; they describe market aggregates, not the value of any individual property.