Clifton’s latest Redfin reading rests on five home sales, so a cash buyer should price the house in front of them and not the neighborhood headline.
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Clifton is an East Shore and North Shore Staten Island neighborhood. Joseph Ranola is a real estate broker and not an attorney or tax advisor, so the closing-tax answers below describe published rates and your attorney confirms your numbers.
PropertyShark reports a Clifton median sale price of $592,500 for Q2 2026, up 17% year over year, and its Q3 2026 reading was not posted when this page was written. Redfin’s figure for the three months ending August 2026 is $624,698, up 9.4%, from 5 homes sold, with a median of 43 days on market against 40 a year earlier. The two readings sit $32,198 apart and both rest on a handful of sales, so Joseph Ranola treats them as context and values each Clifton house against its own comparable sales.
No. A cash offer removes the mortgage contingency and the financing delay, but the price still comes from closed sales of similar houses nearby. With only five sales in Redfin’s latest Clifton window, Joseph Ranola builds the price from the closest recent sales on the buyer’s target block and not from a neighborhood median.
New York State’s transfer tax is $2 for each $500 of the price and is paid by the seller, and the buyer pays the 1% mansion tax on residences at $1 million and up, so it does not apply to a typical Clifton purchase. New York City’s real property transfer tax on a one-to-three family house is 1% up to $500,000 and 1.425% above it, due within 30 days of the transfer. Your attorney will confirm who pays what in your contract.
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