Wine country is not
one market.
In the second quarter, St. Helena/Yountville’s median rose 30% while Healdsburg’s $3M+ sales fell 30%: two towns, thirty miles apart, moving in opposite directions. A pricing model built on “Wine Country” as a single market will mislead a seller in one town and cost a buyer leverage in another. Here is the town-by-town read.
Choose your submarket.
More wine-country communities are added as each quarter’s Index data lands. Looking for a town that isn’t here yet, like Kenwood, Glen Ellen, Sebastopol, or Oakville? Ask me for that read directly and I’ll prepare it.
Thirty miles apart.
Opposite directions.
Year-over-year change, Q2 2026. Meanwhile Napa County’s median home took 91 days to sell in August and Sonoma County’s took 60.
Source: The Wine Country Index™ Q3 2026. Directional.
The numbers beneath
the county median.
A free, block-level read of the Wine Country luxury market, published every quarter: pricing, days on market, absorption, and the insurance squeeze now deciding deals. Seven pages. Useful whether or not we ever work together.
