Farmingville, NY real estate agent.

The area now called Farmingville went through several names before this one took hold — first South Koram Hills, then the Hamlet of Bald Hills, then Mooney Pond. Settlement began in the late 1700s, and the community didn't get its own post office until 1950 — remarkably late for a hamlet with roots that old.

The name Farmingville itself is a bit of a misnomer. By most accounts, the soil and terrain here were never especially good for farming. The name reflects the area's agricultural identity in the 1800s more than it reflects how well that agriculture actually worked.

Farmingville is also the seat of the Town of Brookhaven — Brookhaven Town Hall sits on the east side of Bald Hill, right in the hamlet. Brookhaven itself is enormous, the only Suffolk County town that touches both the Long Island Sound and the Great South Bay, so having its administrative home here is a real piece of civic identity.

Bald Hill is the centerpiece of the community, and it's a genuinely unusual landmark. It sits on the Ronkonkoma Moraine — the ridge of debris left behind where the glacier that carved out Long Island finally stopped advancing — and it's one of the highest points on the entire island. At the summit is Vietnam Memorial Park, dedicated in 1991, with a red-white-and-blue obelisk visible from a distance.

From 1965 to 1980, Bald Hill was home to an actual ski slope — 344 feet, on 74 acres. When the slope closed, the site was redeveloped into what's now the Catholic Health Amphitheater at Bald Hill, one of Long Island's best-known outdoor concert venues. It's changed sponsor names more than once over the years, but it's hosted acts like Ringo Starr, B.B. King, and Diana Ross over the decades.

The other side of Farmingville's history is much quieter. The Bald Hill Schoolhouse, built in 1850, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Elijah Terry House next to it dates to 1823 and belonged to the community's first schoolteacher. Both now sit inside Thomas Muratore Park, alongside a two-mile trail.

Farmingville sits just south of Selden, another market I cover closely, and it's a short drive from Holtsville as well. For everywhere else I work, see my service area overview.

The year in two parts

From September through February, 56 Farmingville homes sold at a median of $632,500 and took a median 28 days to go into contract. From March through August, 64 sold at a median of $652,500, in 19 days.

That's a meaningful difference between the two halves: a higher median sale price and shorter median contract time in March through August. The data shows the change, but it doesn't tell us how much came from seasonality versus a different mix of homes selling.

Four out of five sellers got their asking price

94 of the 120 sellers finished at or above the number they opened with. That's one of the highest proportions of any town I pull data for, and it puts Farmingville alongside Sayville and Selden rather than in the middle of the pack.

Take the sales individually and the middle seller cleared their own asking price by about $21,750, a little over 3%.

The 94 who held their original price were in contract in a median 19 days. The 26 who had to reduce took 57 days and settled about 4% below where they started.

Nineteen days against fifty-seven. In a town where four in five sellers succeed on their opening number, being in the other fifth costs you the best part of two months.

The market gets stronger the higher you go

Every bracket in Farmingville beat its asking price, which isn't something I can say about most towns. Even the bottom group closed about 2% over, with seven in ten sellers getting their number.

The $600,000 to $700,000 band is the strongest on that measure, with nine in ten sellers getting their price, though it took the longest at 26 days. The homes over $700,000 were the quickest, at eighteen days, and closed nearly 6% above asking.

Every price band in this dataset produced a median sale above original asking, although contract times and success rates varied. Your own house still needs to be compared with the segment and properties it genuinely competes with.

Search-price thresholds still matter

Buyers often set maximum search prices at round numbers, so a home just above one can miss buyers who would otherwise consider it. In this Farmingville data, 129 of 228 listings were positioned just under a round number.

That's useful when choosing among reasonable asking prices, but it can't rescue an unsupported number. Farmingville's failed-listing data below makes the much larger pricing lesson unusually clear.

The listings that failed asked 21% more than the ones that sold

Twenty Farmingville listings finished the year without a buyer and have not gone back on. Roughly one in seven of everything that was put up for sale here.

They had been asking a median of $735,000. The owners who made it to a closing table had started at $609,500. That's a gap of nearly 21%, and it's the widest I found in any town where there were enough failed listings to measure.

A median asking price is a blunt instrument, so I checked whether the failed listings were simply better houses. Both groups had a median four bedrooms and two full baths, but the failed listings were considerably larger: 2,636 square feet versus 1,711 for the homes that sold.

That suggests an important possibility rather than a certainty: extra square footage may not command the premium a seller expects when it doesn't also produce additional bedrooms, bathrooms or other features buyers value. With only twenty failed listings, I wouldn't turn that into a rule for every Farmingville house.

Half of those sellers reduced their price and still didn't sell. That's another reason I don't like the strategy of starting high and assuming a later reduction will fix everything. In a fast market, the first few weeks carry attention that can be difficult to recreate once a listing has gone stale.

And price isn't always the culprit. There are plenty of reasons a listing fails, some obvious and some not. Every seller I represent gets a written cancellation guarantee for that reason, explained before anything is signed.

What the market looks like right now

There are 26 Farmingville homes on the market, asking a median of $644,999. Homes have been closing at $645,000. Those two figures are a dollar apart.

I haven't seen that anywhere else. Sellers currently on the market in Farmingville are asking almost exactly what the town has been paying, which is either very good advice being followed or a fortunate coincidence, and either way it's the opposite of what the failed listings appeared to do.

Another 33 are in contract, more than are available to buy, and 4 of the 26 have passed 90 days without going into contract.

So the picture is favorable overall, but not automatic. Four in five sellers achieved their original asking price, while the group that reduced took substantially longer and some failed listings remained unsold even after a reduction.

What none of this can tell you is what your own house would bring. Without walking through it I can give you a range from the closed sales, and no more than that. The firm number comes from seeing the house and setting it honestly against the ones a buyer would be choosing between.

Source: OneKey MLS, September 2025 through August 2026; homes for sale, in contract, and off the market as of early September 2026. These figures describe Farmingville as a whole and are not an estimate of any individual property's value.

When selling a home in Farmingville you don't have to be Nostradamus, but you do need a good agent that can read the market. Here's how I read it.

I prepare valuations personally rather than relying only on an automated estimate.