Raleigh County, WV · 421 properties with county records
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Lester 25865 is in Raleigh, WV, part of the Beckley Metro. The typical home value in Lester 25865 is $158,592 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 2.5% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 78 days, and 0% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Sep 30, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data neither buyers nor sellers hold a clear edge. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 25865 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Raleigh's 20 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $152,278, so 25865 sits 4% above the county middle. Lotvox holds county assessor records for 421 properties in 25865.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 25865 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 25865 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 78 days.
What do homes in 25865 sell for?
The typical home value in 25865 is $158,592 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), up 2.5% in a year. County records put the median at about $114 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 25865?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 25865 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 25865 compare to Raleigh?
25865's typical value of $158,592 compares with a middle value of $152,278 across Raleigh's 20 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 25865 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Cite as: Lotvox ZIP market record, 25865 Lester, WV, data through September 2026, https://lotvox.com/beckley/zip/25865
Listings Flow Ladder — 25865
Faucet, basin and drain — new listings in, active inventory, closed sales out.as of Sep 30, 2026
Thin market — under 25 active listings; ratios withheld
Faucet — new listings
1/mo
200% of normal (1) · gushing· baseline thin
Basin — active listings
4
400% of normal (1) · overflowing· baseline thin
Months of supply
—
derived — not published at this grain
Drain — closed sales
—/mo
— of normal (1)· baseline thin
Net — faucet minus drain
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—
Reading
current
as of 2026-09-30
Compare against:2015-01-01 to 2019-12-31 · 4 same-month points
How plugged is the drain? Two definitions, both ours, deliberately not reconciled.
—Absorption vs its own normal— 1 - (closed sales / active listings) / same-month median of that ratio
—Closed sales vs its own normal— 1 - closed sales per month / same-month median closed sales per month
Closed sales over 24 months — two different numbers, deliberately not merged.
—/mofall in the monthly rate (%)— peak 1/mo (2025-12-31) to —/mo now
1transactions that did not happen— summed monthly shortfall vs the same-month normal, over 4 months below it (vs 2015-19 (COVID excluded))
rate_drop_from_peak is a change in the monthly rate; cumulative_shortfall_vs_normal counts transactions not transacted. They are different quantities and are not interchangeable.
2026-09-30
Redfin market data (county + ZIP), via Lotvox. As of 2026-09-30. Normal = same-month median of monthly rates, minimum 3 same-month points. Source window 3 months (flows shown per month). months_of_supply is not published at this grain (0 non-null rows measured); derived here as active listings / closed sales per month. A fresher supply-only read (2 new, 3 active, 2026-09-01, Realtor.com inventory (county + ZIP), via Lotvox) is available but is NOT used in the net — that source publishes no closed sales, so subtracting across it would mix two vintages.
Should you buy here?
buyer-timing lens
59affordability /100
Buyer leverage is balanced; weigh payment burden and the 3-lens valuation before bidding.
Payment burden
26.5%
affordable
Days on market
78
daily
Price cuts
0.0%
of active
Days on market and price cuts: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Negotiate Hard
DOM: 61d (stable) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)0
Valuation Gap (25%)100
Supply & Demand (20%)85
Days on Market (5%)75
Moderate buyer leverage in 25865. Room to negotiate 5-10% below list. Payment burden: 24.9% of median income. Median days on market: 61. Renting is approximately 96% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 23.5). Market appears 71% overpriced vs. assessed values.
What to Offer
Offer 5-10% below list. You have room to negotiate.
Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
—
Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$0
county CAMA · properties_v
vs income
—
Fair-value model not available for this market.
fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage
vs county comps
+51.0%
County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.
Raleigh+51.0%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
in 515 · out 491 · Raleigh County, WV (parent county of this ZIP)
active inventory
as of 2026-07-01 · IRS SOI county-to-county migration flows 2022-2023 + Redfin inventory history
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Raleigh.
Current tiers · 12 months to Invalid Datefloor 10 sales/tier
7 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k
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—
—
—
fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$500k–$750k
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—
—
—
fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M
—
—
—
—
fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M
—
—
—
—
fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M
—
—
—
—
fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+
—
—
—
—
fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 25865.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
ZIP 25865→Raleigh County, WV
12-Month Direction
-2Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
47· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
26.5%
affordable
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Valuation18
+51%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Insurance Risk
24/100
low_risk
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
4.2%
WV 4.3%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0857d ago
Poverty Rate
18.2%
WV 16.5%US 12.6%
Higher than many comparable counties
Median Household Income
$52,055
WV $58,760US $82,006
Lower than many comparable counties
Cost of Living (RPP)
86.5
WV 86.5US 100.3
Lower than most U.S. counties
Home Value (ZHVI)$157,840
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA
Typical home value: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI); change is the 12-month change.
Owner stock, age of householder
Tenure by age of householder (ACS B25007) is not published below county. Any ZIP figure here is DERIVED from the county's age-specific owner rates applied to this ZIP's own age structure — never read directly.
Derived — this ZIP
13.3% in 2023
of owner-occupied homes have a householder 75 or older
