From January through June of 2017, there were 803 homes sold, with a median sale price of $162,400 - a 4.5% decrease over the $170,100 median sale price for the same period of the previous year. There were 569 homes sold in Newport News in the first half of 2016.
The median sales tax in Newport News for the most recent year with available data, 2015, was $3,024, approximately 1.9% of the median home sale price for the first half of 2017.