Owners in New Chauncey ask what their house is worth. The sales there run across a wide band, and the reason is mostly inside each house: its size, what has been added, and what has been replaced.
The short answer
Between September 2024 and September 2026, 21 homes in New Chauncey closed through the Indiana Regional MLS, at a median of $400,000. The map gives the range as $300,000 to $586,000, and the map's Built column reads 1919 to 1954.
What the numbers say
- Closed sales: 21
- Median sale: $400,000
- Range: $300,000 to $586,000
- Typical size: 1,739 square feet
- Built: 1919 to 1954
- Built in 2024 or later: none of the 21
- Homes on the plat: not counted on the map
Why the map gives no selling pace
The map shows a dash for homes in New Chauncey. The map explains a dash this way: the county's plat does not line up with the MLS neighborhood name, so the homes are not counted. Without that count there is no one-in-N selling pace, and this note does not guess at one.
What a wide range means
Twenty-one sales spread across $286,000 in a neighborhood where every house is more than 70 years old. That width is mostly the houses, not the streets. A price for one house leans on the few recent sales that look most like it in size, layout and condition, and on what each of those had done before it sold.
Check the square footage before you price
In older houses, the square footage in the county record, an old listing and an appraisal often disagree, and finished space below grade is usually the difference. Comparing price per square foot only works when the square feet were counted the same way. It is worth settling that number before a price is set rather than after an appraisal settles it for you. The note on square footage covers which rule an appraisal uses.
For the long-time owner
Many owners of older homes have been in them a long time, and the question is often less what the house would bring than whether it still fits how you live. Staying, renovating or moving can each be the right answer. Most agents are paid only when the answer is move. I will tell you when it is not.
The part I will not answer
What a sale after many years of ownership would mean for your taxes belongs to your CPA. Whether any local rule limits changes to a house belongs to the City of West Lafayette. What a specific repair or renovation would cost belongs to the contractor who would do it.
The West Lafayette neighborhood map shows New Chauncey among the other neighborhoods, each on its own terms, and the West Lafayette page covers the town. The Lifestyle Calibration page covers the stay, renovate or move decision.
Source: Indiana Regional MLS closed sales via Redfin, September 2024 through September 2026, single-family, condo and townhome, as compiled for the West Lafayette neighborhood map.
This note is general. It is not an appraisal, and it is not tax or legal advice. What a specific house would bring depends on that house.