A typical Villas home is worth about $410,000
Up 4.9% in a year, 29% below the New Jersey typical home. Homes typically sell in 28 days, close to asking.
What kind of housing town is Villas?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 5.1 years of income
Less than across New Jersey (5.6 years). Try your own numbers below.
That’s $106K short of a typical Villas home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,940 a month here, $610 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Villas’s typical property tax (1.16% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A seller's market
Supply is tight — about 2.7 months of homes for sale at the current pace. Buyers should expect competition on well-priced homes.
Under ~4 months of supply favors sellers; over ~6 favors buyers.
Redfin Data Center, all residential sales, May 2026.
91% of Villas households own their home
Half of Villas’s homes were built before 1968.
New Jersey: 64% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
Up 38% in five years
About the same pace as New Jersey (35.4%).
Show as a table
| January | Villas | New Jersey |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $183,000 | $317,000 |
| 2018 | $192,000 | $330,000 |
| 2019 | $199,000 | $343,000 |
| 2020 | $215,000 | $358,000 |
| 2021 | $253,000 | $394,000 |
| 2022 | $317,000 | $441,000 |
| 2023 | $340,000 | $471,000 |
| 2024 | $363,000 | $511,000 |
| 2025 | $395,000 | $551,000 |
| 2026 | $400,000 | $568,000 |
| August 2026 | $410,000 | $580,000 |
A typical Villas home worth $184K in September 2016 is worth about $410K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,940
Renters already here pay a median of $1,719, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Cape May County, NJ HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
Villas vs. its neighbors
Villas is the priciest of 4 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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| Town | Typical value | 1-yr change | 2-bed rent | New homes 2025 | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villas | $410K | +4.9% | $1,940 | — | $80,974 |
| Lower | $365K* | +7.9%† | $1,690 | 87 | $84,962 |
| Middle | $342K* | +4.1%† | $1,930 | 148 | $83,508 |
| North Cape May | $393K* | +9.6%† | $1,630 | — | $86,962 |
Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
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What Villas buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.