Anthony Licciardello | October 25, 2026
Roselle Park, NJ
Roselle Park’s median sale price went up 5.7% this quarter. Sales volume fell 26%, days on market rose, the share selling above list slipped, and the price per square foot went down. One of those five numbers is the headline. The other four are the story.
A median is the middle transaction. It reports the composition of what sold as faithfully as it reports what homes are worth, and composition moves fastest exactly when volume is falling. In Roselle Park over the three months to September 2026, the median rose to $597,216 while the number of homes sold fell from 33 to 24, the median price per square foot fell 2.3%, days on market rose from 20 to 25, the sale-to-list ratio fell 2.9 points and the share selling above list fell 1.5 points. Every measure of how hard the market is pulling went the same way, and it was not up. That does not make Roselle Park a weak market — at 103.0% of list and 83.4% selling above asking it is still one of the most competitive towns in Union County. It makes it a market where the headline figure and the underlying pressure have started to point in opposite directions, which is worth knowing before you price anything.
By Anthony Licciardello, Broker · The Prodigy Team · Published October 24, 2026 · Three months ending September 2026
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Roselle Park is a borough of about fourteen thousand people on one and a quarter square miles, which makes it one of the densest municipalities in Union County and one of the smallest. A market that size does not produce many transactions. Twenty-four sales in a month is the entire market, and a market of twenty-four is small enough that the mix of what happens to sell moves the median more than the value of the homes does.
That is the single most useful thing to understand about the figures below, and it is why this piece spends more time on the four numbers nobody quotes than on the one everybody does. For how the borough compares with its neighbour of almost the same name, the Roselle and Roselle Park comparison covers that ground directly.
The median sale price in Roselle Park was $597,216 over the three months ending September 2026, up 5.7% against the same period a year earlier. Taken alone that reads as a market appreciating faster than the county around it, which was up 3.2% over the same window.
Set the price per square foot beside it and the reading changes.
Median sale price — $597,216, up 5.7% year over year
Median price per square foot — $338, down 2.3% year over year
Both figures cover the same homes over the same three months.
Those two measures cannot both be describing the same thing. A median sale price rises when the homes that sold were worth more. A price per square foot falls when each foot of house is fetching less. The way both happen at once is that the homes which sold this year were larger than the homes which sold last year — bigger houses at a lower rate per foot, producing a higher middle transaction.
The typical Roselle Park home did not gain 5.7% in value this year. A bigger share of the borough’s larger houses happened to come to market, and they pulled the middle of the range up with them. The per-foot figure, which adjusts for size, is the one that says what a given house is worth — and it is down slightly. Neither number is wrong. They answer different questions, and only one of them answers the question a buyer or a seller is actually asking.
Twenty-four homes sold in Roselle Park in September 2026. Thirty-three sold in September 2025. That is a fall of 26.1% in a single year, and it is the number that gives the rest of this piece its shape.
The useful comparison is not with last year but with the county. Union County as a whole recorded 330 sales in the same month, down 2.0%. Roselle Park’s volume fell roughly thirteen times faster than the county it sits in.
Bars show the size of the year-over-year fall, not the number of sales. Roselle Park sold 24 homes; the county sold 330.
Nine fewer sales is a 26% fall in Roselle Park and would be a rounding error in a larger town. In a market this small the percentage is real but fragile — it would take only a handful of closings slipping from one month into the next to produce it. The honest reading is that volume fell materially and that the direction is corroborated by the other four indicators in this piece, not that 26.1% is a precise measure of anything. One month of data in a twenty-four-sale market is a signal, not a verdict.
Volume matters more than price for anyone deciding when to act, because volume is what tells you whether there will be a buyer. A market can hold its prices and still become much harder to sell into, and that is the combination the Roselle Park figures describe.
None of the above makes Roselle Park a soft market. It is one of the hardest markets in Union County to buy in, and the competition figures say so plainly.
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Across Union County as a whole, 61.0% of sales closed above the asking price. In Roselle Park the figure is 83.4% — more than twenty-two points higher than the county, and high enough that a buyer should treat the list price as an opening position rather than a ceiling. The borough also runs a sale-to-list ratio of 103.0% against the county’s 102.6%.
But both of those competition measures are lower than they were a year ago. The sale-to-list ratio is down 2.9 points and the above-list share down 1.5 points. The market is still hot and it is less hot than it was, and the direction is consistent with everything else in this piece.
Oxblood marks the one indicator moving up. Redfin returns no price-drop figure for Roselle Park, so that measure is absent rather than zero.
Roselle Park’s median of $597,216 sits $61,310 below the Union County median of $658,526 — about 9% cheaper than the county as a whole, in a borough with a station on the Raritan Valley Line. That is the borough’s basic proposition, and the county price ladder sets out where it falls among its neighbours.
The days-on-market row is the one that repays attention. Union County’s median days on market fell three days over the year. Roselle Park’s rose five. That is an eight-day swing in relative terms, in a borough that is still selling faster than its county in absolute terms. Roselle Park remains quicker than Union County; it is closing the gap from the wrong side.
A median nine percent below the county, a station on the Raritan Valley Line, and a redevelopment pipeline large enough to change the housing stock. Roselle Park is a state-designated Transit Village, and what is being built on Westfield Avenue is set out address by address in the Transit Village piece. A buyer looking at this market is buying into a borough that is adding housing deliberately and under a compliance framework with dates attached, which is a different proposition from speculative supply.
What to do with all of this depends entirely on which side of the transaction you are on.
Do not price off the median. It rose because larger homes sold, not because your home is worth 5.7% more than it was. Price off closed sales of homes of similar size, and check the price per square foot those sales produced.
Expect five more days than last year. Twenty-five is still fast, but a plan built on twenty will feel like failure by week four when nothing is wrong.
The above-list share is still 83.4%. Pricing at or slightly below what you expect remains the strategy that works here, because the mechanism producing those over-asking results is competition between buyers, and it needs a price low enough to attract more than one.
Budget above asking. Five sales in six close over list. A pre-approval that only reaches the list price is not a pre-approval for this market.
The easing is real but small. Sale-to-list down 2.9 points on a $597,000 purchase is roughly $17,000 of negotiating room that did not exist a year ago — meaningful, and not the same thing as leverage.
Fewer sales cuts both ways. Twenty-four homes a month means less competition at any given moment and far less choice. If the right house appears, the next comparable one may be two months away.
“Twenty-four sales in a month is not a market you can shop by browsing. It is a market where you decide what you want, get the financing in order, and then wait for the house. I have watched buyers in Roselle Park lose three in a row by treating the list price as the price, and then win the fourth by understanding that in a town where five in six go over asking, the asking price is an invitation. The median going up this quarter does not change that. The volume going down does — it means fewer invitations.”
Anthony Licciardello · Broker, The Prodigy Team
We price Roselle Park off closed sales of comparable size rather than off the town median, because in a twenty-four-sale market the median is a mix figure. Twenty-two years and more than five thousand closings across seven New Jersey counties and Staten Island. The desk is on 718-873-7345.
Tell us the size and the budget and we will tell you what has actually been clearing at that size in Roselle Park, what it went over asking, and how long it sat.
Is the Roselle Park housing market going up or down in 2026?
Prices are not falling, but the pressure behind them eased. Over the three months ending September 2026 the median sale price rose 5.7% to $597,216 — while the number of homes sold fell 26.1%, the median price per square foot fell 2.3%, days on market rose from 20 to 25, the sale-to-list ratio fell 2.9 points and the share selling above list fell 1.5 points. One indicator up, five down. The most likely explanation for the rising median is that larger homes made up more of what sold, not that homes gained value.
What is the average home price in Roselle Park, NJ?
The median sale price was $597,216 over the three months ending September 2026, and the median price per square foot was $338. The median sits about $61,310 — roughly 9% — below the Union County median of $658,526 over the same period, which is the borough's core proposition: a Raritan Valley Line station at a price below the county.
Is Roselle Park a competitive market for buyers?
Very. 83.4% of Roselle Park sales closed above the asking price, against 61.0% across Union County — a gap of more than 22 points. The sale-to-list ratio is 103.0%. Redfin scores the borough 86 out of 100 for competitiveness. A buyer should budget above asking and treat the list price as an opening position. Both competition measures are slightly below where they were a year ago, which is some negotiating room, but not leverage.
Why did Roselle Park's median price rise while the price per square foot fell?
Because the two measure different things. The median reports the middle transaction, so it moves with the composition of what sold. The price per square foot adjusts for size, so it tracks what a given amount of house fetches. Both rising and falling together is the signature of a mix shift: larger homes made up more of the sales this year, lifting the median even as each square foot fetched slightly less. In a market recording 24 sales a month, three or four large houses are enough to do it.
How many homes sell in Roselle Park each month?
Twenty-four sold in September 2026, down from 33 in September 2025. That is the whole market, not a sample. Union County recorded 330 sales in the same month and was down only 2.0%, so Roselle Park's volume fell roughly thirteen times faster than its county. For a buyer the practical consequence is choice: if the right house appears, the next comparable one may be two months away.
How long do homes take to sell in Roselle Park?
A median of 25 days, up from 20 a year earlier. That is still faster than Union County's 27 days — but the county's figure fell three days over the year while Roselle Park's rose five, an eight-day swing in relative terms. Sellers planning on a twenty-day sale should plan on twenty-five.
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Sources and method. Market figures are Redfin’s calculations from MLS and public records for the city of Roselle Park, read on 24 October 2026 and covering the three months ending September 2026: median sale price, median price per square foot, number of homes sold, median days on market, sale-to-list ratio, share of homes sold above list, and the competitiveness score. Union County figures are from the same source and the same period, and were checked against The Prodigy Team’s own September county report, which matches on median, year-over-year change, days on market and the change in days on market. Redfin returns no price-drop figure for Roselle Park; that measure is reported as absent rather than as zero. Year-over-year percentages in a market recording twenty-four sales a month are fragile by construction and are presented as direction rather than precision. Borough population and area are from the 2020 Census. No forecast appears anywhere in this piece.
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