A typical Valley Falls home is worth about $319,000
Up 7.7% in a year, 39% below the New York typical home.
What kind of housing town is Valley Falls?
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Up 31.9% in five years
About the same pace as New York (29.5%).
Show as a table
| January | Valley Falls | New York |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $189,000 | $298,000 |
| 2018 | $196,000 | $317,000 |
| 2019 | $195,000 | $337,000 |
| 2020 | $203,000 | $353,000 |
| 2021 | $225,000 | $379,000 |
| 2022 | $246,000 | $417,000 |
| 2023 | $266,000 | $437,000 |
| 2024 | $278,000 | $458,000 |
| 2025 | $289,000 | $489,000 |
| 2026 | $304,000 | $510,000 |
| August 2026 | $319,000 | $527,000 |
A typical Valley Falls home worth $187K in September 2016 is worth about $319K today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
What it takes to buy in Valley Falls
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That’s $12K short of a typical Valley Falls home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,540 a month here, $540 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the New York typical property tax (1.55% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
63% of Valley Falls households own their home
Half of Valley Falls’s homes were built before 1938.
New York: 54% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,540
Renters already here pay a median of $1,125, 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 (Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Valley Falls in 2025. The last year with any was 2011 (1 new home).
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Valley Falls gained 44 residents while 2 new homes were permitted: about 22 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. Across New York: 2.2 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $350,000 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $350,000 |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $350,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $148,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
On the market in Valley Falls
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Valley Falls 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. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits 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.