Dongan Hills sold only seven homes last quarter, so the numbers that matter in a divorce are the ones about the housing stock itself.
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Joseph Ranola is a real estate broker and not an attorney or a tax advisor. A matrimonial attorney decides who keeps the house and on what terms, and a CPA answers the tax questions. This page covers the brokerage side: what a Dongan Hills home is worth, how it will sell and what the marketing timeline looks like.
PropertyShark reports a Dongan Hills median sale price of $740,000 for Q3 2026, up 1.4% year over year, but that figure rests on only seven sales, down 36.4%. Seven sales is too small a sample to treat as a trend, and Joseph Ranola does not price a divorce sale off it.
The same page shows houses at a $699,000 median on three sales and condos at $757,000 on four sales, which are also too few to report as medians. Median price per square foot was $559, down 1.2%. Source: propertyshark.com, Dongan Hills market trends, Q3 2026. For the borough as a whole, PropertyShark puts the Staten Island Q3 2026 median at $760,000, up 4.1% on 685 transactions.
Dongan Hills has 2,259 residential units, and 676 of them, about 30%, are two-to-four family. PropertyShark counts 1,369 single-family homes, 208 condo units and just six co-op units in the same neighborhood.
That mix matters because a couple holding a two-family house has a decision a single-family couple does not: sell the whole building, or have one spouse buy out the other and keep the rental income. Joseph Ranola prices both paths with comparable sales so the attorneys on each side are negotiating from the same numbers.
PropertyShark counts 1,137 of Dongan Hills’ 1,369 single-family buildings in a hurricane evacuation zone, about 83%, and 915 of them, about 67%, in a flood zone. For two-to-four family buildings the counts are 547 of 676 in an evacuation zone and 443 in a flood zone. Source: propertyshark.com, Dongan Hills, Q3 2026.
A buyer’s insurance quote and lender will see that exposure, so a divorcing seller should expect the question early and have the flood certificate and any elevation paperwork ready before the listing goes live.
Joseph Ranola is not a tax advisor, and a CPA should run the actual numbers. The IRS Section 121 exclusion lets a seller exclude up to $250,000 of gain, or $500,000 on a joint return, if the seller owned and lived in the home for at least 24 of the last 60 months. For the $500,000 amount each spouse must meet the use test. Source: IRS Topic No. 701.
IRS Publication 523 adds two divorce-specific points: a spouse who is allowed to keep living in the home under a divorce or separation instrument can count that time toward the other spouse’s use test, and an ex-spouse’s ownership time counts when the home is transferred to the other spouse. Ask the CPA which of those applies before the closing date is set.
Joseph Ranola is a broker and not an attorney, so the legal half of this question belongs to your matrimonial attorney. New York distributes marital property equitably, not necessarily equally, under Domestic Relations Law §236(B), and the attorneys and the court decide who keeps the home, who may stay in it and when it must be sold.
The brokerage half is timing and price. A listing needs both owners’ signatures and a single set of showing rules, so Joseph Ranola builds a written marketing plan, a pricing range from recent comparable sales and a showing schedule that both sides and both attorneys can approve before the home is listed.
Joseph Ranola gives both spouses the same data, the same pricing range and an honest read on how a Dongan Hills home will sell, and keeps the process neutral and on schedule. Joseph Ranola serves every neighborhood across Staten Island and Brooklyn, from Tottenville to Williamsburg.
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