Long Island • New York
Long Beach
Real Estate. A City on a Barrier Island
Homes in Long Beach sold at a median of
$895,500
across 140 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, down 0.4% on a year earlier.
Measured separately, Long Beach (School District) reads $899,000 across 201 closed sales in the twelve months to July 2026, down 5.4% on a year earlier.
From $410,000 in January 2013 to $895,500 in July 2026. The dashed line is Long Beach (School District).
| Year | Long Beach |
|---|---|
| 2013 | $336,000 |
| 2014 | $385,000 |
| 2015 | $458,500 |
| 2016 | $449,000 |
| 2017 | $550,000 |
| 2018 | $560,000 |
| 2019 | $594,000 |
| 2020 | $625,000 |
| 2021 | $740,000 |
| 2022 | $762,500 |
| 2023 | $853,750 |
| 2024 | $825,000 |
| 2025 | $899,000 |
| 2026 | $895,500 |
As of July 2026 · Rolling 12 months, single family · Source: OneKey® MLS
- Days on Market
- 43median, listing to contract
- Months Supply
- 6.2inventory at the current pace
- Of Original List
- 97.3%median share of the first asking price
- Price / sq ft
- $553median, finished space
About Long Beach
Long Beach is a small city occupying most of a barrier island off the South Shore, and almost everything about it follows from that geography. It is two miles of Atlantic beach and a two-and-a-quarter-mile boardwalk on one side, Reynolds Channel and the bay on the other, and about half a mile of city in between: dense by Nassau standards, laid out on a grid, and genuinely urban in a way no other town on this site is. There are pre-war apartment buildings and beach bungalows on the same block. Sandy put the whole island under water in 2012 and the rebuilding that followed rewrote the boardwalk, the dunes and a good deal of the housing stock, which is why elevation is the first thing anyone here discusses about a house.
Finding a residence in Long Beach
We search Long Beach on your behalf
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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Tell us what the residence has to make possible, and we will tell you honestly whether it exists here at the price you have in mind — and what it would take if it does not.
What Sells in Long Beach
Once a month we send the closed sales in Long Beach, 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 Long Beach home assessed at $1,000,000 carries
$20,660
a year, an effective rate of 2.07% of market value
- School
- $11,410
- County
- $3,040
- Town
- $6,210
Rates are levied per $1,000 of full market value and shown here against the Long Beach 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 January
- In Nassau the filing period runs from early January to the statutory deadline of March 1, and the grievance goes to the Assessment Review Commission. The Commission has extended that date in recent years, to March 31 for the 2027/28 roll, but each extension is announced annually and is not something to count on. It costs nothing to file, and the work worth doing now is gathering what comparable houses actually sold for. Confirm the current date with the Commission before you rely on it.
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 Long Beach, the FEMA-mapped area in a high-risk zone is
28.3%
of mapped area, meaning Zone A or V, where a federally backed mortgage requires flood insurance
- Zone AE
- 22.8%
- Zone VE
- 5.5%
- Zone X
- 0.5%
High risk (A/V)
High risk (A/V)
Moderate to minimal
This figure does not represent the share of homes or parcels at risk in Long Beach — 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; 71.2% open water within that radius — it counts toward the total this percentage is measured against and lowers it mechanically, not because the shoreline itself is lower risk.
Queried August 2026 · FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL), MapServer layer 28 — public, unauthenticated
Long Beach is served by the
Long Beach City School District
- Enrollment
- 3,329
- Schools
- 6
- 4-Year Graduation
- 94%
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)
Long Beach, as the Census Bureau measures it
| Figure | Long Beach | Nassau County |
|---|---|---|
| Median home value | $661,500 | $658,700 |
| Median gross rent | $2,377 | $2,195 |
| Median year built | 1958 | 1955 |
| Housing units | 16,471 | 477,860 |
| Owner-occupied | 63% | 82% |
| Median rooms | 5.0 | 6.6 |
| Median household income | $130,795 | $143,408 |
| Workers commuting | 16,664 | 588,204 |
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 Long Beach city, New York carries considerably more.
US Census Bureau · American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates · Long Beach city, New York and Nassau County, New York
Getting to Long Beach
- LIRR
- Long Beach is the terminus of its own branch, so every train is a one-seat ride and every seat is available at the start: Penn Station in about fifty minutes, Grand Central in a similar time. The station sits in the middle of the city, and the walk-to-train, walk-to-beach combination is the specific thing this address sells.
- By Car
- Two bridges connect the island to the mainland, and both are the constraint rather than the parkways beyond them. Midtown is around an hour off-peak. Summer weekends reverse the usual pattern: the traffic problem is people arriving, not residents leaving.
Watch what your home is worth
Once a month we send where your home in Long Beach 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.
Thinking of selling? Read what a home in Long Beach sells for.
Local expertise, brought to Long Beach
Anthony Clemenza leads Park & Palm's representation in Long Beach, 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.
