The seven numbers
| Measure | July 2026 | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Median Sale Price | $950K | Single-family · Bergen County |
| Months of Supply | 2.6 | Balanced ≈ 6.0 months |
| Sale-to-List | 104.6% | Avg. of list price received |
| Median Days on Market | 26 | July 2026 pace |
| Homes Sold / Month | 620 | Bergen County · July 2026 |
| Active Inventory | 1,120 | Down 1.1% year over year |
| New Listings | 786 | New to market · July 2026 |
Source: NJ REALTORS® Local Market Update for Bergen County (the association’s monthly housing statistics, compiled with 10K Research; the public county reports are at njar-public.stats.10kresearch.com), reported month July 2026. County-wide, single-family. These are the same figures the market strip on this site reads, published here as text so they can be quoted without running JavaScript.
February was the floor
Across the reported year, one month is the turning point on every measure. February 2026 held the lowest median price of the period at $750,000, the tightest supply at 1.4 months, the weakest sale-to-list ratio at 101.2 percent, the fewest closed sales at 266, the least inventory at 605 homes, and the longest time to contract at 48 days.
Every one of those has moved since. Price, supply, closed sales and inventory are all at their highest points of the reported period; days on market is at its lowest. Sale-to-list peaked at 105.5 percent in June and eased to 104.6 in July. A market with both rising inventory and falling days on market is one absorbing more supply rather than stalling.
What these numbers are, and are not
They are county-wide and single-family. Bergen County contains seventy municipalities, and the Northern Valley alone spans acreage estates, post-war colonials, new construction and Hudson-front condominiums. A county median is a backdrop, not a read on any street or any house.
They are also a lagging report. The reported month is July 2026, published afterwards, and the market a buyer or seller is standing in today is not the market the report describes. Nothing here is a valuation. How a specific property is actually priced is a different exercise, set out in how a home is valued.
The source, and one gap in it
Every market figure on this page comes from the NJ REALTORS® Local Market Update for Bergen County. Nothing on this page is derived from private brokerage data, and no individual transaction, address or client appears here.
Two caveats worth stating rather than smoothing over.
First, where the series comes from. It runs from July 2025 to July 2026, thirteen reported months across thirteen calendar months. Twelve were taken from the Bergen County government’s mirror of the report; the December 2025 report was never posted there, and until 13 September 2026 this page said so and carried a twelve-month series. That month now comes from the association’s own public report portal, which serves the identical document, and the producer falls back to it for any month the mirror skips. The producer still records only months it can verify against a published report.
Second, the year-over-year labels and the thirteen-month series are built differently, and on two measures they disagree. Active inventory is labelled down 1.1 percent beside a series that rises from 1,069 to 1,120 homes; new listings is labelled up 4.0 percent beside a series that rises 6.5 percent. Median price agrees almost exactly, at 8.5 against 8.51.
That pattern is the explanation. Each point in the series is taken from that month’s own report, as first published. Each year-over-year label is taken from the newest report, which compares against a prior year the source has since revised — late-recorded listings and withdrawals continue to land for months after a month closes. So the two are measuring slightly different things, and both can be correct: the divergence is largest exactly where revisions are largest (inventory, new listings) and nearly invisible where they are smallest (price). It is a property of how this page is assembled, not an error in the published source.
Read the labels as the source’s current view against revised history, and the series as the contemporaneous record. Where they differ, the table above carries the contemporaneous figures; the full month-by-month series is published as data at /data/market.json rather than rendered on this page. We have not stored the revised prior-year column, so the explanation above is the most likely reading rather than a measured one.
Related: what a sale costs a New Jersey seller at closing is set out in the closing-cost reference.