Shore Acres trades so rarely that no major data source publishes a reliable neighborhood median. For a seller leaving Staten Island, that makes pricing a comp-by-comp job.
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Shore Acres is a small waterfront enclave on Upper New York Bay in ZIP 10305, north of Fort Wadsworth and south of Rosebank, bounded by Bay Street, Nautilus Street and Arthur von Briesen Park. Much of the neighborhood was built in the 1930s by developer Cornelius G. Kolff. Shore Acres is served by the S51 and S81 buses.
There is no trustworthy neighborhood median for Shore Acres, and that is itself the most useful fact for a seller. PropertyShark does not publish a Shore Acres market page, and Redfin's Shore Acres page reports so few sales in the three months ending August 2026 that its own summary figures contradict each other. The reliable number is the ZIP: Redfin puts the ZIP 10305 median at $719,689 for the three months ending August 2026, down 4.0% year over year, on 86 sales, at $526 per square foot, up 4.9%. Individual trades tell the real Shore Acres story. Redfin records 110 Wadsworth Road closing at $1.9 million on August 31, 2026, far above the ZIP median. A Shore Acres home should be priced from its own waterfront and block comps, not from 10305.
Faster than a year ago across the ZIP. Redfin reports a median of 42 days on market in ZIP 10305 for the three months ending August 2026, down from 55 days a year earlier, while sales volume fell 5.0%. Fewer sales moving faster usually means limited inventory, which favors a well-prepared seller. For a relocating seller, the closing date matters as much as the price, so the timeline should be built backward from the move date.
A Staten Island seller pays the New York City Real Property Transfer Tax of 1% on a one-to-three family sale of $500,000 or less and 1.425% above $500,000, according to the NYC Department of Finance. New York State adds its transfer tax of $2 per $500, or 0.4%. On a $1.9 million sale, those two transfer taxes alone come to $34,675. The 1% mansion tax on purchases of $1 million or more is paid by the buyer, not the seller.
Usually not on the first $250,000 of gain for a single filer or $500,000 for a married couple filing jointly, if the home was the primary residence for two of the last five years, under the IRS Section 121 exclusion described in IRS Topic 701. Long-held Shore Acres waterfront homes can carry gains above those amounts. Joseph Ranola is a real estate broker, not a tax advisor, and a seller with a large gain should run the number with a CPA before listing.
Yes. New York closings are handled by attorneys, and a seller who has already relocated can typically sign documents in advance or through a power of attorney arranged by their attorney. Joseph Ranola coordinates showings, contractor access and the final walk-through locally, so a relocating seller does not have to fly back for each step.
Joseph Ranola prices thin-market neighborhoods like Shore Acres from verified individual sales rather than medians, and coordinates two-sided moves when the seller is buying somewhere else. One cooperating agent described it this way: "He was diligent throughout the process and worked seamlessly with both sides, helping coordinate my client's home sale in Staten Island while I helped him with a purchase in New Jersey. The deals lined up perfectly, and I highly recommend his services." — Madeline McCarthy, verified Google review.
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