Cumberland County reports 24 home sales, median price hits $275,000

Twenty-four residential transactions were posted in Cumberland County for the June 8 to 14 window, and the median sale landed at $275,000 for a 1,304-square-foot property on Mlvl Mays Landing Road in Maurice River. That puts a clear price point on what moved through the county that week: a market still centered in the mid-$200,000s even as individual homes climbed well above it.

The weekly count was far lighter than the 83 transactions posted for June 1 to 7, a sharp swing that shows how much Cumberland County’s reported volume can change from one seven-day stretch to the next. Because the roundup tracks deeds as they are recorded and reported, the total is a useful read on near-term market pace, not just a list of finished sales.

At the upper end, Cumberland County’s June 8 to 14 “10 most expensive homes sold” list was led by a single-family home in Vineland that sold for $401,000. The week before, Millville had topped the county’s expensive-sales list at $499,000, underscoring how the highest end of the market can move from town to town even when the broader median stays relatively steady.

Taken together, the two weeks show a county market with a wide spread between ordinary transactions and the priciest closings. Buyers shopping below the top tier still found activity concentrated far under the figures common in many parts of New Jersey, while the weekly list of higher-end sales showed there is still demand for homes well above the county median.

The countywide roundup is especially useful in Cumberland County because the area covers 483.4 square miles of land, stretching from denser places such as Vineland, Millville and Bridgeton to smaller rural municipalities like Maurice River Township. Maurice River Township had a 2020 Census population of 6,218, so a single sale there can carry outsized weight in a weekly county snapshot.

The Cumberland County Clerk’s Office says its online land-records database includes deed and mortgage information from January 1, 2002 to the present, while county land-record holdings go back to 1748. That long paper trail gives weekly transfer totals a broader context: the June 8 to 14 tally was not just a momentary count, but one more measure of where Cumberland County’s housing market stood in a long-running record of sales and ownership changes.