Why Murrysville's Median Home Price Isn't Your Home's Price

Pull up Murrysville's median home price on three different sites and you'll get three different answers, and not because anyone made a mistake. One tracker will show a townwide average sitting in the high $350,000s with modest single-digit growth. Another will show a 12-month median closer to $400,000. A third will show something lower still. The gap isn't noise. It's a symptom of a town where two very different housing products are selling under the same zip code, and the newer, far more expensive one is skewing what the headline number tells you.

If you're comparing Murrysville to another suburb right now, that distinction matters more than the number itself. A handful of new-construction communities built in the last several years are pricing well above anything the town's existing housing stock has historically commanded, and they're pulling the reported averages upward without changing what a typical resale home actually costs.

The Number That Depends on Which Murrysville You Mean

Start with the baseline. Zillow's Home Value Index, which tracks typical existing-home appreciation rather than raw sales mix, put Murrysville's average home value at $359,930 as of a July 2026 update, up 5.2% over the prior year. That figure reflects the town's older housing stock, the ranches and colonials built across the decades that make up most of what's actually on the resale market.

Now compare that to what's being built and sold in three specific communities inside Murrysville's borders right now.

Kacin Companies, the Pittsburgh-region builder that has been developing upscale communities since 1960, is building Hillstone Village on a portion of the former Torrance farm off Harrison City Road. The community's own pricing lists Carriage Home packages starting at $539,900 and Single Family Home packages starting at $675,800. That's a starting price, not an average, and actual closed sales run higher. A four-bedroom ranch at 1044 Hillstone Village Drive closed for $889,900 in May 2026.

Suncrest Homes has been building in Siena Ridge, an executive community off Hills Church Road, since 2005. The builder's own site lists home and lot packages starting in the high $900,000s, while a separate new-home listing for the same community shows entry pricing in the $800,000s. Either way, the floor sits well above anything the townwide average captures.

A third project, Regan Ridge, adds luxury condominiums priced from $995,000, all within the Franklin Regional School District.

None of these are outliers buried in the data. They're active, named developments generating real closed sales, and every one of them prices multiples above what a typical existing Murrysville home is worth.

Siena Ridge Sets an Even Higher Floor

Siena Ridge is worth sitting with for a moment, because it shows how long this segment has been quietly building. Twenty years of continuous construction on the same land off Hills Church Road means the community has had two decades to establish itself as a known quantity among buyers who want a large custom lot without leaving Murrysville. One buyer's testimonial on the builder's site captures why people choose it over a resale purchase:

"We love the privacy of Siena Ridge, its walkability, and the proximity to everything in Murrysville."

That's the pitch: new construction, established neighborhood feel, and a price tag that has almost nothing in common with what a 1980s split-level a few streets over would sell for.

The Table Underneath the Headline

Laid side by side, the gap between Murrysville's existing housing stock and its active new-construction communities looks like this.

A single median or average sitting somewhere in the middle of that table tells you almost nothing useful about what you'd actually pay, because it's blending four different products into one number.

Why Blending These Markets Breaks Comparisons

This is the part that trips people up when they're cross-shopping towns. A median is supposed to represent the typical case, the house in the middle of the distribution. But when a small number of very expensive sales enter the pool, they don't just nudge the median, they can pull it noticeably even if only a handful of transactions closed that month. If Hillstone Village or Siena Ridge closes even a few sales in a given quarter at $700,000 to $900,000, that's enough to move a townwide median meaningfully, even though the overwhelming majority of Murrysville homes for sale that quarter are resale properties priced far below that.

This is why two trackers can report Murrysville numbers tens of thousands of dollars apart and both be technically correct. One is weighting recent new-construction closings more heavily. The other is smoothing for typical home value the way an appreciation index does. Neither is lying. They're just measuring different things and calling the result the same word: median.

For a buyer comparing Murrysville to, say, a neighboring Westmoreland township, this matters because the comparison is only fair if you're comparing like products. Stacking Murrysville's blended number, inflated by three new-construction communities, against another town's resale-only median will make Murrysville look far more expensive than it is for a buyer actually looking at existing housing stock.

What This Means If You're Comparing Murrysville to Other Towns

Before you treat any quoted median as a planning number, ask what's inside it. A few practical steps:

1. Ask whether the figure reflects an appreciation index, like ZHVI, or a raw median of closed sales for a given month. They answer different questions.
2. If you're shopping resale, request comps pulled specifically from existing housing stock, not blended with active new-construction closings.
3. If new construction is genuinely on your list, price it separately. Hillstone Village, Siena Ridge, and Regan Ridge each have their own pricing logic tied to lot size, finish level, and builder overhead, and none of that logic applies to a resale colonial a mile away.
4. Compare price per square foot within the same housing vintage, not across it. A 1985 four-bedroom and a 2026 custom carriage home are not the same asset even if they're both technically "a Murrysville home."

None of this means Murrysville is overpriced or underpriced relative to its neighbors. It means the town currently has two markets operating side by side, and a single headline number can't represent both honestly.

FAQ

Is Murrysville's housing market actually more expensive than it used to be? Existing homes have appreciated at a modest, steady pace, up 5.2% over the year ending July 2026 according to Zillow's tracked home value index. The larger jumps some sources report are driven more by new-construction sales entering the mix than by existing homes gaining value at that pace.

Are Hillstone Village and Siena Ridge still building? Both are active communities. Hillstone Village is a 42-lot community with a mix of semi-custom and full-custom homes, and Siena Ridge has been in continuous development since 2005 with large homesites still available off Hills Church Road.

Does new construction pricing affect what I'd pay for a resale home in the same neighborhood? Not directly. Resale pricing is set by comparable resale sales, not by nearby new-construction listings. The two segments influence townwide statistics differently than they influence what a specific resale property will actually appraise or sell for.

If you're trying to figure out what a realistic budget looks like for the Murrysville you actually want, whether that's an established resale street or a new build off Harrison City or Hills Church Road, Nikaela Connelly can walk through recent comparable sales for the specific segment you're shopping, not a blended townwide number that may not apply to your search at all.