Nicholas County, WV · 231 properties with county records
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Richwood 26676 is in Nicholas, WV. The typical home value in Richwood 26676 is $113,436 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 7.2% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 362 days, and 0% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Aug 31, 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 26676 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Nicholas's 11 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $138,860, so 26676 sits 18% below the county middle. Lotvox holds county assessor records for 231 properties in 26676.
Headline value data through August 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 26676 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Aug 31, 2026, 26676 is a balanced market. Homes went under contract in a median 362 days.
What do homes in 26676 sell for?
The typical home value in 26676 is $113,436 (Zillow Home Value Index, August 2026), up 7.2% in a year. County records put the median at about $72 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 26676?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 26676 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 26676 compare to Nicholas?
26676's typical value of $113,436 compares with a middle value of $138,860 across Nicholas's 11 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for August 2026.
Where does this 26676 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.
Not available for this ZIP — no rent or ownership-cost estimate published here.
Rent to price
Not available for this ZIP — no price-to-rent ratio published here.
83
/100
strong
hot · balanced · prices rising year-over-year.
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
Balanced Market
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)0
Valuation Gap (25%)100
Days on Market (5%)100
Balanced market in 26676. List price is roughly fair — focus on condition and value. Payment burden: 15.7% of median income. Median days on market: 146. Market appears 61% overpriced vs. assessed values.
Balanced market conditions. Prices roughly aligned with fundamentals — similar to stable periods in 2014-2015.
HOTBALANCED
Market is running hot with fast-moving inventory. Conditions are balanced between buyers and sellers. Prices up 7.2% YoY.
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Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
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 Nicholas.
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
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+
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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 26676.
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.
Nicholas County
County-level context for ZIP 26676
Verified — Nicholas County
Moderate (46)
ZIP 26676→Nicholas County, WV
12-Month Direction
+18Moderate Improvement
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
Why this score
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
44· 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
15.4%
affordable
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.4% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-08