Housing Market in Williamsburg
Williamsburg's housing market shows genuinely wide, largely unreconciled disagreement across 2026 sources -- Redfin alone cited a $374,296 median sale price in June 2026 (down 7.5% YoY) against a $452,000 median just five months earlier in January (up 34.9% YoY) -- almost certainly reflecting a small city's thin monthly sales volume rather than one settled market direction.
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Learn moreA Genuinely Volatile, Small-Sample Market
Williamsburg's own city population (roughly 15,459-15,982 residents) generates a comparatively small number of home sales in any given month, and this pass's sourcing reflects that: Redfin's own cited median sale price swung from $452,000 in January 2026 (up 34.9% year-over-year) to $374,296 by June 2026 (down 7.5% year-over-year) -- a difference of more than $75,000 within the same calendar year from the same source. A separate, earlier Redfin snapshot (February 2025) cited $434,000. This pattern -- a single source's own figure swinging substantially month to month -- is disclosed here as the most plausible explanation: a handful of unusually priced closings in a small market can move a reported "median" meaningfully more than in a larger city.
Zillow and Realtytrac Both Ran Higher Than Every Redfin Figure
Zillow's average home value (a different, all-homes-average methodology rather than a median sale price) was $473,283, up 1.0% year-over-year, while Realtytrac's median estimated value was $510,534 -- both meaningfully above every Redfin figure disclosed above. Whether this reflects genuine methodology differences (all-home-value averages vs. actual closed-sale medians) or a real difference in what's captured, it's disclosed as an unreconciled real spread rather than resolved into one number: treat Williamsburg home prices as running somewhere in the roughly $374,000-$510,000 range depending on source and month, not as one settled figure.
Days on Market: A Real, Modest Improvement
Homes in Williamsburg sold after an average of 40 days on market as of the most recent cited snapshot, down from 53 days a year earlier -- a real, if modest, sign of a somewhat more competitive market than the prior year, even amid the price disagreement above.
James City County's Retiree-Oriented Communities Carry Their Own, Separate Pricing
As detailed on the retiring and best-areas topic pages, James City County's large gated golf communities (Ford's Colony, Kingsmill, Governor's Land) and the New Town mixed-use development sit outside the City of Williamsburg's own housing statistics above -- New Town specifically is cited as offering retiree-oriented condos and townhomes in the $250,000-$400,000 range, a genuinely separate and more specifically documented price point than the city-wide figures.
Confirm Which Jurisdiction a Listed Property Is Actually In
Because "Williamsburg" commonly refers to the broader region in real estate marketing, confirm whether a specific listed property sits inside the actual City of Williamsburg (subject to the city's own $0.620/$100 real estate tax rate) or in James City County or York County (different rates, different school divisions) before comparing it directly against the city-wide figures in this file -- see the moving topic page for the fuller jurisdictional picture.
Key takeaways
- Williamsburg housing prices showed real, wide, largely unreconciled disagreement in 2026 -- Redfin's own median swung from $452,000 (Jan 2026, up 34.9% YoY) to $374,296 (Jun 2026, down 7.5% YoY), plausibly reflecting the small city's thin monthly sales volume.
- Zillow's average home value ($473,283) and Realtytrac's median estimate ($510,534) both ran higher than every Redfin figure -- treat the honest range as roughly $374,000-$510,000 depending on source and month, not one settled number.
- Days on market improved modestly (40 days vs. 53 a year earlier), a real if modest sign of a somewhat more competitive market.
- James City County's retiree-oriented gated communities and New Town carry their own, separately documented pricing (New Town condos/townhomes: $250,000-$400,000) outside the city-wide figures above.
- Confirm which jurisdiction (city, James City County, or York County) a specific listed property actually sits in -- rates and school divisions differ across that line even within one real estate search for "Williamsburg."
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