Richmond VA Luxury Homes Over $1M: A Tier-by-Tier Guide From Entry-Level to Rarest Listings

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Richmond VA Luxury Homes Over $1M: A Tier-by-Tier Guide From Entry-Level to Rarest Listings

What is actually documented at the top of the Richmond market, and what is not published at all

August 8, 2026
SUMMARY

No free public source publishes a median sale price, days on market or price per square foot for the above-$1 million segment of the Richmond VA market. That is the honest starting point for this guide. The highest medians that are documented, all over the three months ending June 2026 and all per Redfin, are The Fan at $714,751 on 66 homes sold, Goochland County at $705,485 on 63 homes sold, ZIP 23221 at $687,345 on 88 homes sold and ZIP 23226 at $669,849 on 103 homes sold. The highest documented median price per square foot is $414, shared by ZIP 23221 and the Museum District. Central Virginia Regional MLS reports Goochland County’s July 2026 closed single-family median at $655,000 on 44 closings, with 2.8 months of supply and a median 30 days on market. Above $1 million, homes commonly offer 3,800 to 7,000 or more square feet with four to six bedrooms on lots from roughly 0.4 acre in town to two acres or more in western Henrico and Goochland, but those are commonly seen listing patterns rather than measured figures. On financing, the 2026 conforming one-unit limit for every Richmond MSA county is $832,750, so nearly every purchase in this tier involves jumbo underwriting. This guide describes each tier qualitatively, uses the highest verified geographies as the top of what is documented, and quotes no interest rates or monthly payments.

Direct answer: No free public source publishes a median sale price for homes above $1 million in the Richmond area, at any geography. Redfin, Central Virginia Regional MLS, FRED and Zillow all report by place, not by price band, and the highest place-level median any of them publishes is The Fan at $714,751 over the three months ending June 2026, per Redfin, on 66 homes sold. So the above-$1M tier has to be described qualitatively. Anyone who quotes you a median, an average days on market or a price per square foot for the above-$1M segment specifically is estimating, not citing.

Here is what is documented at the top of the market, all medians over the three months ending June 2026 per Redfin, with homes-sold counts so you can judge each sample: The Fan $714,751 on 66 sales at $367 per square foot; Goochland County $705,485 on 63 sales at $255; ZIP 23221 $687,345 on 88 sales at $414, the highest per-foot figure in the set; ZIP 23226 $669,849 on 103 sales at $388; the Museum District $642,277 on 37 sales at $414; and Powhatan County $633,214 on 51 sales at $250, up 23.0% year over year. Redfin covers all property types. Central Virginia Regional MLS, reporting closed single-family sales for July 2026, puts Goochland County at $655,000 on 44 closings with a median 30 days on market and 2.8 months of supply, and Ashland at $620,000 on 17 closings. The 17, 27, 37, 44, 51, 63 and 66-sale counts in these figures are all thin, so read them as snapshots rather than trends.

Windsor Farms, Country Club Hills, Kinloch and the River Road corridor are the names most associated with this tier, and no free public source publishes a median sale price, price per square foot, days on market or lot size for any of them. Neither Redfin nor Zillow has a neighborhood page for them, and the Census Bureau publishes no data below locality level. Financing does shift above $1 million: the 2026 conforming one-unit limit for every county in the Richmond MSA is $832,750, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency, so loan amounts above that figure move into jumbo underwriting with its own reserve and documentation standards. This guide quotes no interest rate and no monthly payment, because no free public source supports publishing either as a current local figure – a lender is the right source, and current terms should be confirmed there.

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$1M-$1.25M: Entry-Level Luxury

At the entry point of this tier, homes commonly offer 3,800 to 4,800 square feet with four or five bedrooms and three and a half to four and a half baths on lots of roughly 0.4 to one acre. Those are commonly seen listing patterns, not measured medians – no source publishes square footage, bedroom counts or lot acreage by price band anywhere in the Richmond area.

What the per-foot data implies: the highest documented median price per square foot in the region is $414, in ZIP 23221 and the Museum District, over the three months ending June 2026 per Redfin. At that rate, as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, $1,100,000 corresponds to about 2,660 square feet. At The Fan’s $367 it is about 3,000 square feet, at ZIP 23233’s $241 about 4,565, and at Goochland County’s $255 about 4,315. In other words, a home in this tier with 4,000 or more square feet is almost certainly priced below the per-foot median of the city’s most expensive ZIP codes, which is normal – per-foot medians are set by mid-size inventory.

Where the documented market sits: ZIP 23221 posted a $687,345 median on 88 homes sold with a median 9 days on market, and ZIP 23226 a $669,849 median on 103 homes sold at 10 days, over the three months ending June 2026 per Redfin. A $1M-$1.25M purchase in either is roughly 46% to 87% above the ZIP median. In Henrico County, whose overall median was $416,640 on 480 homes sold, it is well over twice the median.

Financing: the 2026 conforming one-unit limit for every Richmond MSA county is $832,750, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency. As hypothetical arithmetic, a $1,100,000 purchase stays conforming only with at least $267,250 down, about 24.3%. Below that the loan is jumbo. Jumbo underwriting commonly applies tighter reserve, credit and documentation standards. Confirm current rates, reserve requirements and program terms with a lender.

Entry-tier tip: Older West End homes and newer western Henrico construction can list at similar prices while delivering very different things – walkability and architectural detail against larger lots and newer systems. Walk Score rates The Fan 93 and the Museum District 89 against 51 for the City of Richmond overall, though its pages carry stale map credits, so treat the scores as approximate.
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$1.25M-$1.5M: Established Estate Homes

In this tier homes commonly offer 4,200 to 5,500 square feet with five bedrooms and four to five baths on lots of roughly 0.5 to 1.5 acres, commonly including a dedicated office, a library or a wine room in older estate homes, three-car garages, multiple fireplaces and substantial millwork. All of that is commonly seen practice rather than published data.

What the per-foot data implies: as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, $1,375,000 corresponds to roughly 3,320 square feet at the region’s highest documented median price per square foot of $414 (ZIP 23221 and the Museum District, three months ending June 2026, per Redfin), about 3,545 at ZIP 23226’s $388, about 3,750 at The Fan’s $367, about 5,390 at Goochland County’s $255 and about 5,705 at ZIP 23233’s $241. The spread between those results is the clearest available measure of what location costs at this price.

Where the documented market sits: the entire published range of neighborhood and ZIP medians in the Richmond area tops out at $714,751, in The Fan on 66 homes sold. A $1.25M-$1.5M purchase is therefore roughly 75% to 110% above the highest documented neighborhood median in the region, and there is no published median for the segment it actually sits in.

Financing: at $1,375,000, staying under the $832,750 conforming one-unit limit requires at least $542,250 down, about 39.4%, so purchases at this level are jumbo in practice. Note that the 2026 conforming two-unit limit is $1,066,250 and the national high-cost ceiling is $1,249,125, but Richmond is not a high-cost area for conforming purposes, so the one-unit baseline of $832,750 is the relevant number. Confirm current terms with a lender.

Estate-home tip: Ask for the install year of the roof, each HVAC unit, the water heater and the electrical service in writing. The American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates put the City of Richmond’s median year built at 1959 and Henrico County’s at 1985, so a renovated kitchen in an established West End home says nothing about the systems behind it.
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$1.5M-$2M: Statement Properties

Homes in this tier commonly offer 4,800 to 6,500 square feet with five or six bedrooms and four and a half to six baths on lots of roughly 0.7 to two acres, commonly with dual-island kitchens, dedicated media rooms, guest suites, extensive outdoor living space and four or more garage bays or a motor court. These are commonly seen features rather than measured frequencies – no source publishes feature frequency by price band.

What the per-foot data implies: as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, $1,750,000 corresponds to roughly 4,225 square feet at $414 per square foot, about 4,510 at $388, about 4,770 at $367, about 6,865 at Goochland County’s $255 and about 7,260 at ZIP 23233’s $241, all using Redfin medians for the three months ending June 2026. At this price the arithmetic starts to line up with the square footage actually marketed in the tier, which is a reasonable sign the per-foot figures are the right tool even though no median exists for the segment.

Where the documented market sits: nothing in the published data reaches this tier. The highest county median is Goochland County at $705,485 on 63 homes sold and the highest ZIP median is 23221 at $687,345 on 88 homes sold, per Redfin for the three months ending June 2026. Zillow’s home value index, which is an index rather than a transaction price, tops out in the same territory at $659,121 for ZIP 23221 as of July 31, 2026, and Zillow publishes no sale-price data below metro level at all.

Financing: every purchase in this tier exceeds the $832,750 conforming one-unit limit unless the down payment is very large – at $1,750,000 it would take $917,250 down, about 52.4%, to stay conforming. Jumbo and portfolio lending is the norm here, with reserve requirements and documentation standards set by each lender rather than by a national limit. Confirm current terms with a lender.

Inspection tip: Commission an inspection scope that explicitly covers geothermal or multi-zone HVAC, whole-home generators, irrigation, well and septic where applicable, and any pool equipment. Replacement costs on those systems are real, and no free public source publishes measured local figures for them, so get contractor bids rather than relying on any published range.
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$2M-$3M: Premier Estates and Waterfront

Homes in this tier commonly offer 5,500 to 8,000 square feet with five to seven bedrooms and five and a half to seven baths on parcels of one to five acres or more, commonly with guest or pool houses counted outside the primary square footage, whole-home automation, wine rooms and extensive outdoor entertaining space. Commonly seen patterns, not published data.

What the per-foot data implies: as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic against Redfin medians for the three months ending June 2026, $2,500,000 corresponds to roughly 6,040 square feet at $414 per square foot, about 6,810 at $367, about 9,800 at Goochland County’s $255 and about 10,000 at Powhatan County’s $250. Those last two are the useful ones for estate acreage, and they show why land-heavy purchases in the outer counties look very different on a per-foot basis from in-town purchases at the same price.

Where the documented market sits: nowhere near this tier. For scale, Goochland County recorded 63 total home sales of all prices over the three months ending June 2026 per Redfin, and 44 closed single-family sales in July 2026 per Central Virginia Regional MLS, with 2.8 months of supply and a median 30 days on market. Powhatan County recorded 51 Redfin sales and 46 CVR MLS closings with 3.1 months of supply. Whole-county sale counts in the dozens are the reason no segment-level statistic can be published for a tier this far above the median.

Financing and carrying costs: purchases here are far above the $832,750 conforming limit, so jumbo or private banking arrangements apply, and this post makes no claim about what share of buyers pay cash, because no free public source publishes that. On taxes, as hypothetical arithmetic on an assessed value of $2,000,000: $16,600 a year at Henrico County’s published $0.83 per $100, $17,800 at Chesterfield County’s $0.89 for 2026, $16,200 at Hanover’s $0.81, $15,400 at Powhatan’s $0.77 for 2026 and $10,600 at Goochland’s $0.53, or $17,000 inside Goochland’s Tuckahoe Creek Service District where a $0.32 add-on applies.

Carrying cost tip: The often-quoted rule of budgeting one to two percent of value a year for maintenance is a rule of thumb, not a Richmond-area measurement, and no public source publishes local maintenance, landscaping or insurance costs. Get an actual insurance quote and actual service contracts in writing before you close, and treat any published range as a placeholder.
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$3M+: Richmond’s Rarest Listings

This is the thinnest part of the market, and it is also the part where published data disappears entirely. No free public source publishes an active-listing count, a median price, a days-on-market figure or a price per square foot for the above-$3 million segment in the Richmond area, so this post gives no count of how many such listings exist at any moment. Homes at this level commonly offer 7,000 square feet or more with six or more bedrooms on parcels of two to ten acres or more, commonly along the River Road corridor, in western Henrico or on Goochland estate acreage.

What the per-foot data implies: as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, $3,000,000 corresponds to roughly 7,250 square feet at $414 per square foot, about 8,175 at $367, about 11,765 at Goochland County’s $255 and about 12,000 at Powhatan County’s $250, using Redfin medians for the three months ending June 2026. The fact that the arithmetic produces plausible estate-scale square footage does not make it a measurement of this tier – it is the region’s mid-market per-foot rate applied to a much larger number.

What is genuinely documented: Goochland County has the highest published median sale price of any Richmond-area geography at $705,485 on 63 homes sold, and the highest ACS median year built at 2000, the highest median household income at $118,931, the highest ACS median home value at $500,600 and an 84.9% owner-occupancy rate, per the 2020-2024 five-year estimates. Its mean commute is 29.9 minutes, carrying a margin of error of at least 10 percent of the total value. Those figures describe the character of the county, not this price tier.

Practical notes: properties at this level commonly include multiple structures, and some carry National Register of Historic Places designation, which can affect what renovations are permitted and what tax credit programs may apply. Title work on large historic parcels commonly takes longer than a standard closing. This post makes no claim about how many of these transactions occur off-market, because that is not published anywhere.

Due diligence tip: On any large parcel, verify acreage, easements, conservation restrictions and any historic designation against the county records and the assessor’s parcel data before making assumptions from the listing sheet. Goochland, Henrico and Chesterfield all reassess annually, so an assessed value can move between contract and closing.
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Loan Limits, Taxes and Recording Costs Above $1M

The loan limits, from the primary sources: for 2026 the conforming one-unit limit in every county of the Richmond MSA is $832,750, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency, with two-unit at $1,066,250, three-unit at $1,288,800 and four-unit at $1,601,750. The national high-cost ceiling is $1,249,125, and Richmond is not designated high-cost for conforming purposes, so the one-unit baseline applies. The 2026 FHA forward one-unit limit for the Richmond VA metro is $707,250, per HUD, with $905,400 for two units, $1,094,450 for three and $1,360,100 for four; the national FHA floor is $541,287 and the ceiling $1,249,125. Any one-unit loan above $832,750 is jumbo.

What that means in practice, as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic: to stay conforming you need at least $167,250 down on a $1,000,000 purchase (about 16.7%), $267,250 on $1,100,000 (about 24.3%), $667,250 on $1,500,000 (about 44.5%) and $1,167,250 on $2,000,000 (about 58.4%). Jumbo lenders set their own credit, down payment and reserve standards, and those standards vary by lender rather than by any published national rule. This post states no interest rate, no monthly payment, no required credit score and no required income, because none of those can be sourced to a public dataset for this market. Confirm all of them with a lender.

Annual property tax, from each locality’s own rate page: per $100 of assessed value, Chesterfield County is $0.89 for 2026 and Powhatan County $0.77 for 2026 – the only two Richmond-area localities that state an explicit tax year – while Henrico publishes $0.83, Hanover $0.81 and Goochland $0.53 plus a $0.32 add-on inside the Tuckahoe Creek Service District, none with a stated year. The City of Richmond publishes $1.20 with no tax year on the page at all, so confirm the city rate with Richmond Finance before relying on it. On an assessed value of $1,500,000, as hypothetical arithmetic, that is $12,450 a year in Henrico, $13,350 in Chesterfield, $12,150 in Hanover, $11,550 in Powhatan and $7,950 in Goochland, or $12,750 inside the Tuckahoe Creek district. Henrico, Chesterfield and Goochland reassess annually.

One-time recording costs, from the Code of Virginia: the grantor’s tax is 50 cents per $500 of consideration under section 58.1-802, which is $1,500 on a $1,500,000 sale, paid by the grantor by default but negotiable, and split half to the state and half to the locality. The state recordation tax on deeds is 25 cents per $100 under section 58.1-801, or $3,750 on that same sale, and localities may add one third of the state amount under section 58.1-814, up to $1,250 more. No Northern Virginia or Hampton Roads regional grantor fee applies in the Richmond area.

Financing tip: Get a full jumbo pre-approval rather than a pre-qualification before touring, and ask your lender to price the loan both just under $832,750 and just above it so you can see what the conforming line is worth on your specific purchase. Jumbo underwriting timelines and documentation requirements commonly run longer than conforming, so start earlier than you would at lower price points.
Geography Median Sale Price Homes Sold Median Days on Market Median $/Sq Ft Approx Sq Ft at $1,200,000
The Fan, Richmond $714,751 66 14 $367 about 3,270
Goochland County $705,485 63 22 $255 about 4,705
ZIP 23221 $687,345 88 9 $414 about 2,900
ZIP 23226 $669,849 103 10 $388 about 3,090
The Museum District, Richmond $642,277 37 7 $414 about 2,900
Powhatan County $633,214 51 22 $250 about 4,800
ZIP 23220 $571,871 116 14 $330 about 3,635
Church Hill, Richmond $562,304 27 15 $285 about 4,210
ZIP 23233 $549,876 162 15 $241 about 4,980

This table is the top of what is documented, not a table of $1M+ listings. Every median is for the three months ending June 2026, per Redfin, covering all property types; Redfin’s note on these pages reads: based on Redfin calculations of home data from MLS and/or public records. No free public source publishes a median sale price, days on market or price per square foot for the above-$1 million segment at any Richmond-area geography, and none of the geographies above has a median that reaches $1 million. Homes-sold counts are shown so you can judge each sample – 27, 37, 51, 63 and 66 sales are all thin. The final column is explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, $1,200,000 divided by the median price per square foot, and is not a measured square footage. Windsor Farms, Country Club Hills, Kinloch and the River Road corridor have no published median at any source. Central Virginia Regional MLS figures quoted elsewhere in this post are closed single-family sales for July 2026 and are not comparable to these.

Frequently Asked Questions About Richmond VA’s Luxury Real Estate Market

Is there a published median sale price for Richmond homes over $1 million?

No. No free public source publishes a median sale price, median days on market or median price per square foot for the above-$1 million segment at any Richmond-area geography. Redfin, Central Virginia Regional MLS, FRED and Zillow all report by place rather than by price band. The highest place-level median any of them publishes is The Fan at $714,751 over the three months ending June 2026, per Redfin, on 66 homes sold. Any figure presented as the median for the above-$1M tier has been estimated rather than measured.

What are the highest median sale prices published anywhere in the Richmond area?

Over the three months ending June 2026, per Redfin: The Fan at $714,751 on 66 homes sold, Goochland County at $705,485 on 63 sold, ZIP 23221 at $687,345 on 88 sold, ZIP 23226 at $669,849 on 103 sold, the Museum District at $642,277 on 37 sold and Powhatan County at $633,214 on 51 sold, the last up 23.0% year over year. Central Virginia Regional MLS, reporting closed single-family sales for July 2026, puts Goochland at $655,000 on 44 closings and Ashland at $620,000 on 17 closings. Redfin covers all property types while CVR MLS is single-family only, so the two are not directly comparable.

How much square footage does $1 million buy in Richmond?

No source publishes square footage by price band, so the defensible method is to divide by published median price per square foot. Over the three months ending June 2026, per Redfin, the highest figures in the region were $414 in ZIP 23221 and the Museum District, $388 in ZIP 23226 and $367 in The Fan, against $255 in Goochland County and $241 in ZIP 23233. As explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, $1,000,000 corresponds to roughly 2,415 square feet at $414, about 2,725 at $367, about 3,920 at $255 and about 4,150 at $241. Large homes commonly transact below their ZIP’s median per-foot figure, so treat the lower results as conservative.

What is the property tax on a $1.5 million home in the Richmond area?

Published real estate tax rates per $100 of assessed value are $0.89 in Chesterfield County for 2026, $0.77 in Powhatan County for 2026, $0.83 in Henrico County, $0.81 in Hanover County and $0.53 in Goochland County plus a $0.32 add-on inside the Tuckahoe Creek Service District. On an assessed value of $1,500,000, as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, that is $13,350 a year in Chesterfield, $11,550 in Powhatan, $12,450 in Henrico, $12,150 in Hanover and $7,950 in Goochland, or $12,750 inside the Tuckahoe Creek district. Only Chesterfield and Powhatan state an explicit tax year. The City of Richmond publishes $1.20 with no tax year at all, so confirm the city rate with Richmond Finance. Assessed value is not necessarily the purchase price.

Do I need a jumbo loan to buy a $1 million home in Virginia?

Almost certainly, depending on your down payment. The 2026 conforming one-unit limit in every Richmond MSA county is $832,750, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency, so any one-unit loan above that is jumbo. As hypothetical arithmetic, a $1,000,000 purchase stays conforming only with at least $167,250 down, about 16.7%. Jumbo lenders set their own credit, down payment and reserve standards. Confirm current rates, reserve requirements and program terms with a lender – this post publishes no rate and no payment.

How large a down payment keeps me under the conforming loan limit?

Using the 2026 Richmond MSA conforming one-unit limit of $832,750 per the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic: at least $167,250 down on a $1,000,000 purchase, about 16.7%; $267,250 on $1,100,000, about 24.3%; $542,250 on $1,375,000, about 39.4%; $667,250 on $1,500,000, about 44.5%; and $1,167,250 on $2,000,000, about 58.4%. Above those thresholds you are conforming, below them you are jumbo. Note the 2026 two-unit conforming limit is $1,066,250 and the national high-cost ceiling is $1,249,125, but Richmond is not a high-cost area for conforming purposes.

Which Richmond ZIP codes and neighborhoods have the highest price per square foot?

Over the three months ending June 2026, per Redfin, the highest median sale prices per square foot in the Richmond area were $414 in ZIP 23221 and $414 in the Museum District, followed by $388 in ZIP 23226, $367 in The Fan, $330 in ZIP 23220, $301 in ZIP 23229 and $285 in Church Hill. For context, the City of Richmond overall was $276, Henrico County $237 and Chesterfield County $215. The Museum District figure rests on 37 sales and Church Hill’s on 27, both thin samples. No source publishes a per-foot figure for Windsor Farms, Country Club Hills, Kinloch or the River Road corridor.

How long do homes above $1 million take to sell in Richmond?

No source publishes days on market for the above-$1M segment, so any specific figure for it is invented. What is published, for all price points: median days on market over the three months ending June 2026 per Redfin was 22 in Goochland County, 22 in Powhatan County, 14 in The Fan, 9 in ZIP 23221 and 7 in the Museum District. Central Virginia Regional MLS reports 30 days for closed single-family sales in Goochland in July 2026 and 31 in Ashland. On the listing side, Realtor.com data via FRED showed a 40-day median across the Richmond metro and 48 days in Hanover County in July 2026, which measures unsold inventory rather than completed sales.

What lot sizes come with luxury homes in western Henrico and Goochland?

No free public source publishes median lot size for the Richmond area at any geography, so acreage figures in luxury marketing are listing-by-listing facts rather than statistics. Commonly, established western Henrico sections run from about half an acre upward and Goochland estate parcels run to several acres or more, but verify each parcel against the county assessor record. As a proxy for how much land a county contains per household, ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates put owner occupancy at 84.9% in Goochland and 93.2% in Powhatan against 64.5% in Henrico and 43.5% in the City of Richmond.

Do luxury home buyers in Richmond typically pay cash?

This post does not answer that with a number, because no free public source publishes the share of Richmond-area transactions that close without financing, at any price point or geography. Behavioural claims of the form a certain percentage of buyers do a certain thing cannot be sourced locally and should be treated with suspicion wherever you see them. What can be said is structural: any one-unit loan above the 2026 conforming limit of $832,750 is jumbo, and jumbo underwriting is more document-intensive, which is one reason financing-free offers carry weight in negotiation.

What school zones matter for buyers in this tier?

Zoning, not ratings, is the answer this post can give. Verify the current attendance zone for the exact address directly with Richmond Public Schools, Henrico County Public Schools, Chesterfield County Public Schools or Goochland County Public Schools, since boundaries change between years and do not follow neighborhood names. Several independent schools also draw families to the West End. This post publishes no school ratings, rankings or test scores, and readers should be cautious about any real estate content that does.

What ongoing costs should I expect owning a $2 million home in Richmond?

Property tax can be calculated from published rates. On an assessed value of $2,000,000, as explicitly hypothetical arithmetic, that is $16,600 a year at Henrico County’s $0.83 per $100, $17,800 at Chesterfield’s $0.89 for 2026, $16,200 at Hanover’s $0.81, $15,400 at Powhatan’s $0.77 for 2026 and $10,600 at Goochland’s $0.53, or $17,000 inside Goochland’s Tuckahoe Creek Service District. Insurance, maintenance, landscaping and service contracts cannot be sourced to any public Richmond-area dataset, so this post publishes no figures for them – get actual quotes and contracts in writing. The common one-to-two-percent-of-value maintenance rule of thumb is a rule of thumb, not a local measurement.

Are there new construction homes over $1 million in the Richmond area?

Yes, and the published data on housing age points to where. ACS 2020-2024 five-year estimates put the median year built at 2000 in Goochland County, 1996 in Powhatan County, 1991 in Hanover County and 1990 in Chesterfield County, against 1985 in Henrico County and 1959 in the City of Richmond. Goochland also has the highest published county median sale price at $705,485 on 63 homes sold over the three months ending June 2026, per Redfin, and the deepest inventory at 2.8 months of supply per Central Virginia Regional MLS for July 2026. Build timelines vary by builder and site, and no public source measures them, so ask the builder for its own recent completion history.

How does buying above $1 million in Richmond differ from Northern Virginia or DC?

This post makes no price comparison between metros, because that would require figures for other markets that are not in scope here. Two sourced differences are worth knowing. First, Richmond is not designated a high-cost area for conforming loan purposes, so its 2026 one-unit limit is the national baseline of $832,750 rather than a higher ceiling, with $1,249,125 being the national high-cost maximum. Second, the regional grantor fee add-ons authorized in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads do not apply in the Richmond area, so the Virginia grantor’s tax here is the base 50 cents per $500 of consideration under Code of Virginia section 58.1-802.

Can I use a VA or FHA loan above $1 million in Virginia?

FHA generally will not reach this tier on a one-unit purchase: the 2026 FHA forward one-unit limit for the Richmond VA metro is $707,250, per HUD, with $905,400 for two units, $1,094,450 for three and $1,360,100 for four. VA entitlement rules work differently from FHA and conforming limits and vary by lender for large loan amounts, and this post does not state VA loan limits because they are outside the sources it relies on. Eligible veterans and active-duty buyers should confirm entitlement, down payment requirements and available jumbo VA programs directly with a lender and with the VA.

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The Mission Realty Team specializes in guiding buyers and sellers through Richmond’s $1M+ market, from Windsor Farms and Country Club Hills to Kinloch and the River Road corridor. Reach out to the Mission Realty Team today for a confidential conversation about current luxury inventory, off-market opportunities, and financing options tailored to this price tier.






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