Drive north on Schlegel Road past Salt Road and you'll pass a stretch of new construction that used to be a golf course. The west course of Webster Golf Club closed, roughly 85 acres got reshaped into building lots, and what came out the other side is called Westwood Estates. It has 106 homesites, built out in phases since 2021, with new sections still going up this year.
That subdivision carries more weight than its size suggests. It is, according to the builder's own listings, repeated word for word across multiple platforms, "the only new home community in the Webster Thomas School District." Not the newest. The only one.
If you've been comparing Webster to Penfield, Pittsford, or Fairport and the numbers keep contradicting each other from one site to the next, this is the reason. One subdivision is currently carrying the entire weight of new supply for a specific attendance zone, and everyone else buying into that zone is buying a home somebody else already lived in.
One golf course, three phases, one attendance zone
Westwood Estates started as two parcels totaling about 85 acres, formerly the west course of Webster Golf Club, at the corner of Salt Road and Schlegel Road. The developer pursued approval as a Town Law 278 Cluster Subdivision, a process that lets a builder reduce individual lot sizes and infrastructure footprint in exchange for preserving more shared open space across the site. That approval path is why 85 acres became 106 homesites instead of a smaller conventional layout.
Construction moved in stages. Section 1 finished in spring 2021. Section 2 followed. Section 3 was still working through final design and municipal approval as of the engineering firm's published project record. This year, Ryan Homes was still actively marketing individual homesites there, including the Lehigh floor plan starting around $452,990 for roughly 3,010 square feet, and the Aviano floor plan starting around $352,990 for about 1,566 square feet. One listing described a completed home ready for move-in this fall 2026, meaning the subdivision is still adding inventory in real time, not finished and sitting still.
The location sells itself on convenience as much as newness. It sits directly across from the remaining Webster Golf Club course, a short drive from Wegmans, Kohl's, and Target, and close to local spots like Mama Lor's Café and JoJo's Bistro. Builder listings note it's within five minutes of Webster Thomas schools, which is the whole point: this is the one place in that zone where a buyer can get a brand-new house instead of someone else's.
What happens to a school zone when new supply narrows to one address
Here's the part that actually changes how you should read Webster's price data. When new construction in a specific zone runs through a single subdivision, nearly every other transaction in that zone has to be a resale. That reshapes the whole shape of the local market in two ways.
A buyer in the Webster Thomas zone this year is really choosing between two very different lanes:
- New construction at Westwood Estates, priced from roughly $350,000 into the $450,000s depending on floor plan and lot, with move-in timelines tied to whatever phase is currently building.
- Resale of the existing housing stock, mostly built between the 1960s and early 2000s, competing in a market where Redfin's own data pegged Webster's overall competitiveness score at 99 out of 100 and homes selling in around 8 days as of its most recent reporting this year.
Those two lanes don't behave the same way, and blending them into one town-wide median hides more than it reveals. New construction sets a price floor that resale buyers don't have the option to undercut by building somewhere else nearby in the same zone, because there isn't a somewhere else. That scarcity is a quiet contributor to why bidding activity in Webster has stayed persistent even while national headlines talk about loosening inventory.
Why the numbers disagree depending on which site you check
This is also why two portals can show you wildly different numbers for the same town in the same year. Redfin reported that in March 2026, only 4 homes sold in Webster, with a median price of $263,000, down 27.6% year over year, and an average of 60 days on market compared to 22 days the year before. Movoto, pulling from a much larger pool of active listings in August 2026, showed a median list price closer to $384,000 to $400,000, somewhere between 130 and 169 active listings, and homes moving in about 8 days.
Neither number is wrong. They're measuring different slices of a market where the underlying pool of transactions is small enough that a handful of closings can swing a monthly median by tens of thousands of dollars. Four sales is not a sample size that tells you anything stable about a town. A hundred and thirty active listings, tracked over a longer window, tells you something closer to the truth, but even that figure blends new construction against decades-old resale stock without separating them.
For context, Monroe County as a whole posted a median sale price of $299,103 in May 2026, up 7.5% year over year. Webster running meaningfully above that countywide figure lines up with what you'd expect from a market where a chunk of transactions are new construction priced from $350,000 up, pulling the town average higher than a resale-only market would sit on its own.
The district is investing in growth. The land isn't.
Here's a detail that doesn't show up on any pricing portal. In October 2023, the Webster Central School District community voted to approve an $85 million capital improvement project called Building Our Future, affecting all 11 schools in the district. Phase 1 construction began in summer 2025 and is still working through the district's buildings today.
That's a district planning for sustained enrollment and long-term facility needs. At the same time, the supply of new home sites within its most construction-constrained zone is still, as far as current listings show, running through one subdivision built on a former golf course. A district investing eight figures in its physical footprint while new-home supply in part of its boundary sits this narrow is worth knowing if you're trying to gauge where Webster is headed, separate from where it's been.
What this means if you're comparing Webster to a neighboring suburb
If you're weighing Webster against Penfield, Pittsford, or Fairport, a few things are worth confirming before you lean on any single median price you found online:
Ask which attendance zone a specific address actually falls into. Webster Central School District includes both the Thomas and Schroeder zones, and the dynamics described here are specific to Thomas, not necessarily the whole district.
Ask whether the number you're looking at reflects new construction, resale, or a blend of both. A town-wide median that mixes a $350,000 new build with a 1975 ranch tells you less than either number alone.
Don't treat a single month's reported median as gospel, especially in a market this size. A town where only a handful of homes change hands in a given month is a town where the headline number moves around more than the actual market does.
FAQ
Is there a real difference between buying in the Webster Thomas zone versus the Schroeder zone? They're separate attendance boundaries within the same district. The land-scarcity pattern described here, one subdivision carrying all new construction, is specific to the Thomas zone based on current builder listings. If you're comparing zones, ask your agent for current new-construction inventory in the specific zone you're targeting, since availability can differ block by block.
Why did I see two completely different median prices for Webster on different websites? Because the actual number of transactions in a town this size is small enough that a thin monthly sample can swing wildly. A month with only a few closings will produce a very different median than a broader rolling average pulled from a larger pool of active listings. Check the reporting window and sample size before comparing two sites against each other.
Will more new construction come to the Webster Thomas zone? Westwood Estates itself was still moving through its final phase as of the most recent public project documentation, and builder listings this year show homes still being marketed there. Whether a second subdivision follows in that specific zone isn't something current listings or public records answer yet. It's a fair question to ask a local agent who's tracking new subdivision filings in the town.
If you're trying to figure out what a specific Webster address is actually worth, separate from a portal's town-wide median, that's the kind of digging worth doing before you write an offer. Lalla Fitzpatrick works Webster and the surrounding Monroe County towns regularly and can walk through what a given zone, street, or subdivision is really doing right now. Let's Connect.
