Market · Point Lookout, NY
40°35′N · 73°35′WPoint Lookout, New York
Point Lookout Home Prices (2026)
As of September 2026Closed sales, not list prices
As of September 2026, the median Point Lookout house sold for $1,650,000 over the last 12 months, across 15 arm's-length sales closed from September 29, 2025 to September 28, 2026. Over five years the median is $1,200,000 (111 sales), and the middle half of those sales ran from $928,000 to $1,668,000. The figures come from Nassau County deed records plus MLS closings, arm's-length sales only; the method is set out below.
Read the 12-month figure with care: it rests on 15 sales, 2025 ran high (a $1,668,000 median over 22 sales), and deeds reach the public record, and our data, weeks to months after closing, so the latest months are under-counted. The five-year median is the steadier number.
- Median sale, 12 months
- $1,650,000
- 15 sales
- Median sale, 5 years
- $1,200,000
- 111 sales
- Median $/sf, 12 months
- $830
- 15 sales
- Median $/sf, 5 years
- $789
- 111 sales
By year
Point Lookout home prices by year
Median sale price by year40°35′N · 73°35′W
* 2026 is a part year: sales closed from January 1 to August 12, 2026.
| Year | Sales | Median | $/sf |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 40 | $938,000 | $657 |
| 2022 | 25 | $985,000 | $772 |
| 2023 | 18 | $999,000 | $688 |
| 2024 | 29 | $1,320,000 | $854 |
| 2025 | 22 | $1,668,000 | $826 |
| 2026 (to date) | 6 | $985,000 | $737 |
Position on the island
Ocean side, middle and bay side
| Position | Sales | Median | $/sf |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean side (south of Beech St) | 29 | $1,550,000 | $799 |
| Middle of town | 79 | $1,065,000 | $785 |
| Bay side (Bayside Dr and Ave, north of the roadway) | 3 | fewer than 5 sales, not published | fewer than 5 sales, not published |
| Distance | Sales | Median | $/sf |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–500 ft | 19 | $1,550,000 | $797 |
| 500–1,000 ft | 15 | $1,400,000 | $809 |
| 1,000–2,000 ft | 66 | $1,078,000 | $785 |
| 2,000 ft + | 11 | $1,150,000 | $670 |
By street-guide zone
We have counted the zones drawn in our street guides too, but with 2 to 69 sales apiece over five years the smaller zones say more about which houses happened to sell than about the ground. Ask the office for the sales behind any zone.
A zone median is a blunt tool. Within one block, the house at the ocean end and the house mid-block sell as different houses, and what a house faces often matters more than how many lots it sits on. For a figure on a particular house, a valuation starts from the sales around it rather than from the town.
Original and rebuilt
What the year on the county card does to price
| County card | Sales | Median | $/sf |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built before 1960 | 89 | $1,090,000 | $809 |
| Built 1960–1999 | 14 | $1,508,000 | $688 |
| Built or rebuilt 2000 or later, before the sale | 7 | $1,850,000 | $638 |
Houses carded 2000 or later when they sold went for a median $1,850,000 over five years against $1,090,000 for pre-1960 cards, but they had a median 2,820 sf of living area against 1,530 sf, and their price per square foot was lower ($638 against $809).
The card records the year a house was built, and for a teardown the year the new house went up. A gut renovation that kept the original frame sometimes keeps the original year, so the first row can include houses that are thoroughly redone inside, and the pre-1960 count is an upper bound on truly original houses. Only 7 of those 110 sales were of a house carded 2000 or later at the time of sale.
Lot size
Single, double and triple lots
| Lot | Sales | Median | $/sf |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 2,500 sf (typically one tax lot) | 38 | $901,000 | $724 |
| 2,500–3,499 sf | 9 | $1,275,000 | $982 |
| 3,500–4,999 sf (typically two tax lots) | 38 | $1,281,000 | $807 |
| 5,000–6,999 sf (most often three) | 20 | $1,774,000 | $739 |
| 7,000 sf and up | 6 | $2,475,000 | $870 |
Over five years a house on 3,500 to 4,999 sf sold for a median $1,281,000 against $901,000 for one on under 2,500 sf, a gap of about $380,000, and one on 5,000 to 6,999 sf for $1,774,000. The gap is not the price of the extra land alone: the houses on the bigger lots were bigger too, and price per square foot of house shows no steady rise with the lot. Where a lot sits in its block, and what it faces, can matter more than its size.
For sale now
Our current listings
As of September 2026, Point Realty has 5 homes listed for sale on the island, 3 of them in Point Lookout. Only 1 of those shows an asking price, too few for a meaningful median, so we do not print one. These are our own listings, not every house for sale in town.
Taxes
2026 property taxes
On the 2026 Nassau County roll, the middle half of Point Lookout house tax bills (general plus school) runs from $12,700 to $18,800, with a median of $15,200, across 837 house parcels (parcels with a county year built, a lot of 13,000 sf or less, a house-numbered address and a 2026 bill). A buyer's bill can differ from the current one: exemptions belong to the owner, and a new buyer registers for STAR with the New York State Tax Department (the STAR credit) rather than on the county bill (see the essentials).
Look up the county bill for any Point Lookout parcel on the real cost of a Point Lookout house.
Other figures you will see
How this compares to portal estimates
The national portals publish two kinds of number for a town. One is a model estimate of what homes are worth. The other is a list-price figure, such as a median asking price across whatever happens to be on the market that week. Both are useful. In a town where 18 to 40 houses change hands a year, both can move a long way when a handful of large or small houses come to market.
This page counts only closed sales: what buyers actually paid, from Nassau County deeds and MLS closing records, with transfers between relatives, estate transfers and sales of part-interests taken out. If a portal figure and this page disagree, differences like these are often part of the reason. None of these, ours included, is a price for a particular house.
Method and caveats · as of September 202640°35′N · 73°35′W
Where these numbers come from
- Sources. Nassau County recorded deeds (the deed consideration is the price) plus OneKey MLS closings. An MLS closing within 60 days of a deed on the same parcel is that deed's closing, even when the two prices differ, and is counted once, at the deed's date and price. MLS closings stand alone only where no deed has reached our data yet; 3 of the 15 sales in the last 12 months are MLS-only.
- Windows. Last 12 months: sales closed September 29, 2025 to September 28, 2026. Five years: September 29, 2021 to September 28, 2026. The latest sale in the data is dated August 12, 2026 and the latest deed in our data extract March 13, 2026, so the most recent months are under-counted.
- Arm's-length only. Deeds marked as a sale between relatives, an estate sale, a partial interest or not arm's-length are left out, as in our valuation model, and so are deeds marked buyer is also seller and 2 deeds checked by hand and found not to be an open-market sale of a whole house (such as a share of a house or a transfer between related companies). A sale whose price, restated to today's dollars by our market index, comes to less than $505,000 (40% of the median sale since 2018 in today's dollars, about $1.26M) is treated as a share of a house and left out; 39 sales across all years were dropped this way, so one sale from 2021 or later that was recorded below $505,000 remains.
- One deed, one sale. Deeds recorded on the same day at the same consideration on parcels in the same county block (a house with its accessory tax lot, or one house carried on two parcels) count as a single sale, and the lot areas are added (33 such cases across all years). Bay islands, the marina and multi-unit buildings on Lido Boulevard are left out.
- Price per square foot is the sale price divided by the county's recorded living area, which can be out of date after a renovation.
- Small numbers. Any group with fewer than 5 sales shows no figure. Point Lookout records 18 to 40 arm's-length sales in a full year (2021–2025), so single-year, per-position and per-lot medians move with the mix of houses that sold. Counts can differ from our monthly newsletter, which does not apply the fractional-interest cutoff or merge multi-parcel deeds.
- Rounding. Prices to the nearest $1,000, price per square foot to the nearest dollar, areas to the nearest 10 sf, distances to the nearest 10 ft, taxes to the nearest $100. A median of an even number of sales is the midpoint of the middle two.
- No single house. Nothing on this page is a price for any particular address. For that, ask for a valuation.
Questions
Point Lookout home prices: common questions
What is the median home price in Point Lookout?
As of September 2026, the median Point Lookout house sold for $1,650,000 over the last 12 months (15 arm's-length sales closed from September 29, 2025 to September 28, 2026) and $1,200,000 over the last five years (111 sales). The five-year figure is the steadier of the two, because only 18 to 40 arm's-length sales are recorded in a full year (15 in the last 12 months). Both come from Nassau County deed records plus MLS closings.
How much does a house cost per square foot in Point Lookout?
The median was $830 per square foot of living area over the last 12 months (15 sales) and $789 over five years (111 sales), as of September 2026. Square footage is the county's recorded living area, which can be out of date after a renovation, so treat price per square foot as a guide rather than a rule.
Are Point Lookout home prices rising?
From 2021 to 2025, yes: the median price per square foot of the houses that sold went from $657 in 2021 (40 sales) to $826 in 2025 (22 sales), and the median sale price from $938,000 to $1,668,000. Single-year medians jump around because only 18 to 40 arm's-length sales are recorded in a full year; 2026 so far has 6 sales (3 known only from MLS until their deeds reach our data) at a $985,000 median.
What does a bigger lot (3,500 to 4,999 sf) add to a Point Lookout house?
Over five years, houses on 3,500 to 4,999 sf of land (typically two county tax lots) sold for a median $1,281,000 (38 sales), against $901,000 for houses on under 2,500 sf, typically one tax lot (38 sales), a gap of about $380,000. Part of that gap is the house: the houses on the bigger lots were larger, a median 1,620 sf of living area against 1,390 sf. Houses on 5,000 to 6,999 sf (most often three tax lots) sold for a median $1,774,000 (20 sales). The groups are by parcel area, not by a count of tax lots, and where a house sits in its block often matters more than how big its lot is.
How do ocean-side prices compare to bay-side prices in Point Lookout?
Over five years, houses south of Beech Street (the ocean side) sold for a median $1,550,000 (29 sales), against $1,065,000 in the middle of town (79 sales). The bay side had only 3 arm's-length sales in that time, too few to publish a median. Price per square foot differs far less ($799 against $785), so much of the gap is the size of the houses that sold.
How much are property taxes on a Point Lookout house?
On the 2026 Nassau County roll, the middle half of Point Lookout house tax bills (general plus school) runs from $12,700 to $18,800, with a median of $15,200, across 837 house parcels (parcels with a county year built, a lot of 13,000 sf or less, a house-numbered address and a 2026 bill). A buyer's bill can differ from the current one: exemptions belong to the owner, and a new buyer registers for STAR with the New York State Tax Department (the STAR credit) rather than on the county bill (see the essentials).
A number for your house
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