Pull up four real estate sites today and price a home in Harrison, New York, and you will get four different answers to what sounds like a simple question. Redfin says the median sale price in February 2026 was $1.1 million, down 2.8 percent from a year earlier. Movoto's June 2026 figure puts the median asking price at $1.51 million. PropertyShark's Q4 reporting period shows Harrison houses selling at a median of $1.7 million, up 13.3 percent year over year. William Pitt Sotheby's June 2026 market report has the single-family median at $3 million, up 20 percent from June 2025.
None of these sources is wrong. They are all describing different slices of the same town, and in a market this small, that difference is the whole story.
The four numbers, side by side
| Source | Figure | Time window | Year-over-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redfin | Median sale price: $1.1M | February 2026 | down 2.8% |
| Redfin | Average sale price: $1.27M | Most recent month tracked | down 27.3% |
| Movoto | Median list price: $1.51M | June 2026 | down 2% |
| PropertyShark | Median sale price, houses: $1.7M | Q4 | up 13.3% |
| William Pitt Sotheby's | Median sale price, single-family: $3M | June 2026 | up 20% |
Look closely and you'll notice Redfin disagrees with itself before it even gets to the other sites. Its median sale price fell modestly. Its average sale price, on the same page, fell by more than a quarter. A median and an average telling opposite-strength stories about the identical town in the identical stretch of 2026 is the tell that something structural is going on beneath the headline number, not just normal month-to-month noise.
Why the average and the median don't agree with each other
A median is the middle sale. An average gets pulled around by whatever is at the extremes. When Harrison's average price drops 27.3 percent year over year while its median barely moves, the arithmetic is telling you that the town lost some of its highest-end sales from one year to the next, or gained a cluster of lower-priced ones, without the broad middle of the market shifting much at all. That is not a sign of a cooling market. It is a sign of a lumpy one, where a handful of transactions on either end of the price scale can swing the summary statistic without changing what a typical buyer actually experiences.
In a market with dozens of closings every month, one or two outlier sales get absorbed into the noise. In Harrison, where Redfin counted only 8 home sales in February 2026, a single high-end estate closing or a single starter home selling under asking can move the average by double digits.
Harrison is really two markets stitched into one name
The bigger reason no two sites agree is that "Harrison" covers ground that does not behave like a single housing market. Downtown Harrison, clustered around Halstead Avenue, is a walkable corridor of co-ops, condos, and mixed-use buildings within half a mile of the Harrison Metro-North station, which puts express trains into Manhattan in about 35 minutes. The town's zoning and planning boards have kept that corridor active: a 16-unit, four-story mixed-use building was approved for 110 Halstead Avenue, the longtime home of a lunchtime staple locals called the Soup Shack, and a separate mixed-use project at the corner of Halstead and First Street was approved for 12 luxury apartments with rooftop space, replacing an older two-story building on the site. The transit-oriented Avalon Harrison development added more than 140 affordable housing units near the station, and the Renaissance Harrison project brought an active-adult community to the town's Teardrop neighborhood.
Then there is Purchase, the hamlet in the northern part of town, home to what locals call the Platinum Mile, the office corridor where Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, and Mastercard keep corporate campuses. PepsiCo's headquarters alone sits on 144 acres and includes a garden designed by the British gardener Russell Page, dotted with 45 contemporary sculptures. The housing around it looks nothing like downtown: older Tudors and colonials on large, more isolated lots, along with some newer construction, near clubs like Westchester Country Club, Old Oaks Country Club, and Blind Brook Club, and parks like the 700-acre Saxon Woods Park, home to the largest swimming pool in Westchester and an 18-hole golf course, and the Silver Lake Preserve, with hiking trails through streams and woodland.
These are not two neighborhoods within a shared market. They are two different real estate products that happen to share a mailing address, and every one of the sources above is sampling them in different proportions depending on which month, which property type, and which part of town happened to trade.
The number that makes the point without any interpretation
You do not need statistics training to see the split. On the same live Redfin page, condos in Harrison were listing at a median of $237,000, while houses across town were trading in the $1.1 million to $1.7 million range depending on the quarter. That is not a rounding difference. That is two separate markets, condo and single-family, sitting inside the same municipal boundary and the same headline "Harrison" statistic.
What's actually happening to supply
Regional MLS data for February 2026 shows Harrison's median sale price softening only slightly, down 1.4 percent from $1,850,000 a year earlier to $1,825,000. At the same time, months of supply fell from 3.3 to 1.7, a drop of 48.5 percent, and new listings fell from 13 to 6, a decline of 53.8 percent.
Read those three numbers together and a different story appears than "the market is cooling." Prices barely budged while the number of homes coming up for sale collapsed by more than half. That pattern points to sellers sitting on mortgage rates locked in years ago and simply not listing, rather than buyers losing interest. Demand didn't fall. Supply did. That distinction matters if you're timing a purchase or a sale in a town this thin on inventory: a quiet month here can mean fewer sellers, not fewer buyers.
How to actually use a Harrison "median"
Before trusting any number you see for Harrison, ask three questions. Is it counting condos and houses together, or separately? Redfin's $237,000 condo figure and its $1.1 million house figure would average into a meaningless blend if combined. Is it a listing price or a closed sale price? Movoto's $1.51 million is what sellers asked for in June 2026, not necessarily what buyers paid. And is it covering downtown Harrison, Purchase, or the town as a whole? A single-family estate near the Platinum Mile and a co-op three blocks from the train station are both technically "Harrison," and no single median can represent both honestly.
A couple of questions this raises
Does Harrison have more than one train station? Yes. Downtown Harrison's Metro-North stop serves the Halstead Avenue corridor directly, which is part of why that area trades more like a transit-oriented market than the larger-lot sections of town.
Is Purchase part of the Town of Harrison? Yes. Purchase is a hamlet within the Town of Harrison, distinct in housing stock and lot size from the downtown village core, which is exactly why combining the two into one median obscures more than it reveals.
The takeaway
A single "Harrison median" will keep showing up on portals as a tidy number, and it will keep being close to useless on its own. The town's real story in 2026 is a downtown corridor adding density near the train, an estate market anchored by the Platinum Mile, and a supply squeeze driven by sellers staying put rather than buyers stepping back. If you're pricing a purchase or a sale here, the number that matters is the one built from comparable properties in your specific corner of town, not the headline figure on any single site.
If you want that number for your specific situation, Andrew Rogovic has spent years working both sides of Harrison, from downtown co-ops to Purchase estates, and can walk you through what your address actually compares to. Request a free home valuation and get a read on the market that accounts for which Harrison you're really in.
