05/29/2026
Median sale price in New Albany this February was $825,000. Median Westerville home value is $432,000. Same school region, fifteen miles apart, two completely different price universes.
I get this call almost every week. A move-up buyer, a relocator from Chicago or Cincinnati, sometimes a parent helping a kid land a job at Intel. They say the same sentence. "We are looking at New Albany or Westerville." Then they ask me what the difference is.
The difference is roughly $400,000 on the median home. That is the headline. The real answer is what that $400,000 actually buys, and whether your life needs the thing it buys.
I work both markets. I sell in 43054. I sell in 43081 and 43082. I have no horse in this race. What follows is the comparison I give clients on the phone, written down so you can read it before you call me.
Click the link below for the full scoop.
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Adam Geuy at NextHome Experience