How to read a Milton sold price

Typical against average, the middle-half band, days on market and sold-to-ask, and why a range needs more sales behind it than a midpoint.

2 min readUpdated September 2026

The short version

The typical price is the midpoint. The average is not the same number and is pulled by large sales.
A middle-half band needs ten sales behind it; a midpoint needs five.
A blank figure means too few sales, never zero sales.
A single address is never published as an aggregate.

Typical is not average

Two different numbers get called "the price". The typical price is the midpoint: half of all sales landed above it, half below. The average adds every sale together and divides by the count. Across Milton over the trailing 12 months the typical sold price is $930,000. The average over the same sales is $1,010,000. The two sit $80,000 apart.

The gap is not an error. A handful of large rural or luxury sales pull an average upward and leave the midpoint where it is. When you see a price quoted with no label, it is worth knowing which of the two you are looking at.

Worth knowingThis site uses the midpoint for town-wide figures and the average for each neighbourhood row, matching whichever figure the page you click through to already shows. The two are never mixed inside one comparison.

Milton sold data

A band says more than a midpoint

The middle half of Milton sales over the year landed between $790,000 and $1,135,000. That band is built by trimming the cheapest quarter and the dearest quarter of all sales and reporting what is left. It survives one unusual transaction in a way that a lowest-to-highest range does not.

A band also needs more sales behind it than a midpoint. A midpoint is published at five sales; a band is not published below ten. A range leaks its own endpoints, and an endpoint is a real house.

Sold prices by neighbourhood

Days on market and sold-to-ask

Homes that sold in Milton over the trailing 12 months took 88 days on average. They closed at 98.2% of asking. Those two figures answer questions a price cannot. Days on market describes pace. Sold-to-ask describes negotiating room, and whether asking prices are set close to what the market will pay.

Neither figure is published where fewer than five homes sold, for the same reason a price is not.

Why some figures are missing

A blank on this site never means zero. It means the number of sales behind the figure was too small to publish one without describing a particular household. A price computed on two sales is not a market statistic. It is a pair of transactions with a division sign between them.

Individual sold prices are not shown at all without signing in, and never for a single address. One address is a population of one, and no sample size makes that safe.

Street-level pages

Common questions

Asked all the time

Where do these Milton figures come from?

Completed sales recorded on the board, filtered to those that may be displayed publicly, over the trailing 12 months ending today. The same records feed the sold pages, the neighbourhood pages and the street pages.

Why is a figure blank instead of zero?

Because zero is a claim and a blank is not. Zero would say no homes sold. A blank says too few sold to publish the figure safely. Those are different facts and they are not interchangeable.

Can I see what a specific house sold for?

Not on a public page. Individual sold prices sit behind a sign-in, and a single address is never shown as an aggregate at any sample size.

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