New Kent County is a house market first and foremost, and that shapes what you will meet once you start touring. Most of what comes up here is a detached house on its own lot, so your search is less about picking between building types and more about comparing yards, layouts and how much of the house has already been updated. Three-bedroom plans do the heavy lifting, and you will see a mix of newer construction alongside older houses that have been lived in and worked on over the years. David Tortolini Realty Group works this county closely and knows how the listings here read against what they actually close for.
New Kent County at a Glance
- County
- New Kent County County
- ZIP codes in these listings
- 23140 · 23124
- Typical asking price
- $495,000 (median of 31 homes, excluding 8 land and other non-dwelling listings)
- Typical sold price
- $475,000 (median of 83 home sales, excluding 9 land and other non-dwelling sales, past 12 months)
- Typical home
- 2,553 sq ft (n=31) · 3 bed / 2.1 bath (medians, n=31 listed now)
- Months of supply
- 4.5 (leaning to sellers, homes only)
- Sold-to-list
- 100% of asking (median per home sale, n=83)
- Data current as of
- October 2026
How the New Kent County market is moving
Two numbers tell you most of what you need to know about reading listings here. The first is months of supply, which is simply the amount of standing inventory measured against how quickly homes have been selling, and in New Kent County that ratio falls into the range classified as leaning toward sellers. The second is the relationship between asking price and closing price: on sales that have already finished, homes here closed at or above what the seller asked. That is a record of past closings, not a forecast on any house you walk into, but it does tell you to treat list prices as a starting figure worth taking seriously rather than a number with obvious air in it. Most of the homes for sale here are houses.
What your money buys in New Kent County
The three-bedroom is the layout that sells most often here, and it runs around $382,000. That is a house with its own yard, its own driveway and its own roof, all of it yours to maintain. The typical home in this county was built around 2008, which is a useful age to know. A house that age is not worn out, but it has reached the point where the roof, the air handler and the water heater start coming due one at a time. Ask what has already been replaced and what is still the original equipment from the build. A seller who can tell you the roof went on five years ago and the water heater last winter is handing you a different house, financially, from one where everything is still factory.
Worth confirming before you write an offer
- Lot acreage and any recorded easements or right of ways.
- HOA covenants, dues, reserves, and amenity maintenance responsibility in golf and planned communities.
- Agricultural or forestal district land use restrictions.
- Well and septic permit records with county health department.
Working with David Tortolini Realty Group
Two things on this page trip buyers up more than anything else: how tightly closed sales track the asking price, and the paperwork side of the county's golf and planned communities, where covenants, dues, reserves and who maintains which amenity vary from one association to the next. David Tortolini Realty Group reads those documents for a living and can tell you what questions a specific association's file raises before you write anything. If you want, we will pull the covenant and dues package on any community listing you are considering and go through it with you line by line.
