Westchester • New York
Bedford
Real Estate. Stone Walls and Riding Country
Homes in Bedford sold at a median of
$1,609,000
across 76 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, up 1.4% on a year earlier.
Measured separately, Bedford (School District) reads $1,329,757 across 212 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, down 1.5% on a year earlier.
From $950,000 in January 2013 to $1,609,000 in July 2026. The dashed line is Bedford (School District).
| Year | Bedford |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $894,750 |
| 2014 | $925,000 |
| 2015 | $982,000 |
| 2016 | $912,000 |
| 2017 | $857,500 |
| 2018 | $894,500 |
| 2019 | $840,000 |
| 2020 | $952,500 |
| 2021 | $1,280,000 |
| 2022 | $1,160,000 |
| 2023 | $1,230,000 |
| 2024 | $1,425,000 |
| 2025 | $1,600,000 |
| 2026 | $1,609,000 |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
- Days on Market
- 23median, listing to contract
- Months Supply
- 3.0inventory at the current pace
- Of Original List
- 100.4%median share of the first asking price
- Price / sq ft
- $464median, finished space
About Bedford
Bedford is the part of Westchester that never agreed to become a suburb. The Town of Bedford covers roughly forty square miles of hills, reservoir watershed and horse country, and the three hamlets inside it, Bedford Village, Bedford Hills and Katonah, are each distinct enough to trade separately. Bedford Village is the oldest and quietest of the three: a triangular green, a 1787 courthouse, and dry stone walls running along roads that were laid out for carriages. Four-acre zoning across much of the town has held the density down for a century, and the reservoir land the City of New York owns for its water supply cannot be built on at all. The result is a landscape that reads as rural at a forty-mile radius from Midtown.
Finding a residence in Bedford
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We are not publishing our own listings here at present, and we would rather say so than fill the page. What we do instead is the more useful half: we search across public listings, professional member systems, broker relationships, and direct outreach. Non-public opportunities are subject to seller authorization and availability.
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What Sells in Bedford
Once a month we send the closed sales in Bedford, measured rather than estimated, with a few practical notes on the house and one thing worth knowing if you are thinking of moving.
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A Bedford home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$20,974
a year, an effective rate of 2.10% of market value
- School
- $13,714
- County
- $3,200
- Town
- $4,060
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Bedford school district. This figure does not include special districts (fire, water, library, sanitation, ambulance); STAR, veterans, senior and other exemptions. We pull the actual bill for any specific parcel before you go to contract.
Fiscal year 2025 · NYS ORPTS real property tax rates (FY2025), Socrata iq85-sdzs
The window to challenge your assessment is short, and it is the same every year
- The window to challenge your assessment opens in June
- In Westchester the tentative roll is published on June 1 and the filing period runs to Grievance Day, the third Tuesday in June, which is Tuesday, June 15, 2027. The grievance is filed with the Town of Bedford Assessor, and the date does not move. Filing costs nothing, and the case is made with what comparable houses actually sold for.
Filing dates are set by statute and computed from the rule rather than quoted from a past year. Confirm the current date with the assessor before you rely on it.
Within 2 miles of Bedford, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
0.7%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone X
- 99.3%
- Zone A
- 0.4%
- Zone AE
- 0.2%
- Zone AO
- 0.1%
Moderate to minimal
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
This figure does not represent the share of homes or parcels at risk in Bedford — only the share of FEMA-mapped area within a 2-mile radius of the town's page coordinates, not a property count or a town-wide figure; the flood zone of any single address, which must be confirmed against its own FIRM panel before pricing insurance.
Queried August 2026 · FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL), MapServer layer 28 — public, unauthenticated
Bedford is served by the
Bedford Central School District
- Enrollment
- 3,498
- Schools
- 7
- 4-Year Graduation
- 83%
Bedford Central is geographically large and takes in Mount Kisco, Katonah and Bedford Hills alongside Bedford Village, so its district-wide figures describe a considerably broader population than the hamlet — including a four-year graduation rate lower than its immediate neighbours’.
Per-pupil expenditure is not published in a form we can verify, so we do not show a figure for it.
BEDS Day enrollment 2024; graduation rate reported 2022-23 · NYSED BEDS Day enrollment file and graduation-rate/outcomes file (bulk data, data.nysed.gov)
Bedford, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Bedford | Westchester County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $1,125,600 | $638,400 |
| Median gross rent | — | $1,876 |
| Median year built | 1967 | 1958 |
| Housing units | 846 | 391,861 |
| Owner-occupied | 99% | 62% |
| Median rooms | 9.0or more | 5.2 |
| Median household income | $250,000or more | $118,411 |
| Workers commuting | 591 | 401,629 |
The Bureau publishes no median rooms above 9.0 and no median household income above $250,000. Bedford is at those ceilings, so the figures above are where the survey stops rather than where the market does.
The Bureau published no median gross rent for Bedford. It withholds an estimate drawn from too small a sample, and a blank line is the honest way to carry that.
These figures describe the housing, not the people who live in it, and we publish them as the Bureau measured them without interpreting them. Its own profile for Bedford CDP, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Bedford CDP, New York and Westchester County, New York
Getting to Bedford
- Metro-North
- Bedford is on Metro-North’s Harlem Line, not the LIRR, and Bedford Village has no station of its own: the stops are at Bedford Hills and Katonah, a few minutes’ drive north. Grand Central runs roughly seventy minutes. Almost everyone drives to the platform, so parking permits are part of the calculation here in a way they are not further south.
- By Car
- I-684 runs up the eastern edge of the town with the Saw Mill and the Taconic to the west; Midtown is about an hour and a quarter off-peak. Greenwich and the Merritt Parkway are twenty minutes east, which matters for the households commuting to Connecticut rather than the city.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Bedford stands, drawn from recorded sales nearby rather than an algorithm's guess, with the range and the sample behind it. No listing, no call, and nothing public. A person is one reply away when you want one.
Local expertise, brought to Bedford
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Bedford, advising buyers and sellers on positioning, pricing, and the channels through which a residence here actually reaches the market. Anthony holds an active brokerage license in New York.
