Brookhaven Vacant Land Report

The Town of Brookhaven is the largest of Suffolk County’s ten towns by parcel count, and it holds the county’s deepest inventory of vacant, buildable land. This report is an aggregate reference: how many vacant lots there are, how they break down by size, and what recent land sales say about price. It reports totals and medians only — never individual owners or parcels.

Vacant land by lot-size tier

Vacant parcels grouped by size. Median sale price and land price per square foot are drawn from recorded land sales in each tier. Tiers backed by fewer than 5 recent sales are shown as counts only, so no figure can be traced to a single transaction.

Town-wide median recorded land sale: $150K on a median lot of 0.75 ac across 515 recorded sales.

How to read these numbers

Land price per square foot varies sharply with lot size: small single-family lots trade at a higher $/sf than large acreage parcels, which is why the breakdown is by tier rather than a single blended average. Price a specific parcel off its own size tier, not the town-wide median. Recorded sales lag their transaction date, so these figures describe recently recorded activity, not this week’s market.

For the parcel-level view of what’s available now, see the Brookhaven vacant land index, or narrow by size: 1–5 acre lots and 5+ acre parcels.

Coverage and scope

Vacant-parcel counts come from the town-wide GIS parcel roll; land-sale medians come from recorded Suffolk County transactions matched to Brookhaven vacant lots. This is an aggregate report — it publishes counts and medians by area and lot size, and deliberately withholds any figure that would resolve to an individual parcel or owner. Individual parcel detail (owner, exact assessment, distress signals) is available on each parcel’s own page after a free sign-up.