Commercial Real Estate Market in Chester, NY
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
23 active listings and 374 off-market properties in Chester, NY. Commercial property asks $62/SF to buy (based on 3 listings) and $21.26/SF/Yr to lease (based on 8 listings).
Market Trends
Chester, NY spans 32.6 square miles in Orange County, New York. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Office vacancy in Chester, NY runs 19.9% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 13.1% in 2019.
Retail
Retail vacancy in Chester, NY runs 6% across the Northeast region in 2025, little changed from 6% in 2019. Down from a 2020 peak of 7.1%.
Industrial
Industrial vacancy in Chester, NY runs 7.6% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 5.4% in 2019. Nearly 2.4x the 2021 low of 3.2%.
Multifamily
Multifamily vacancy in Chester, NY runs 5.6% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 4% in 2022.
Zoning & Land Use
Land Use Mix share of zoned land by category
- Residential 35.3%
- Industrial 33.2%
- Commercial 31.6%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
Chester, NY zones 1,395 acres across 8 districts. Commercial zoning covers 31.6% of zoned land, residential 35.3% and industrial 33.2%. The largest single district is Light Manufacturing And Research at 25.4%. For commercial buyers the practical constraint is that only 64.8% of land carries a commercial or industrial designation.
This zone is intended to allow warehousing and wholesale storage, manufacturing and processing operations, research laboratories, and business and industrial office facilities.
Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Chester, NY has 12,547 residents in 4,607 households. Density runs 384 people per square mile. Median household income here is $147,011 and median gross rent $1,652 a month.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Where does Realmo's Chester market data come from?
Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 7 active for-sale and 16 active for-lease listings in Chester, NY. The medians are based on 3 of the for-sale and 8 of the for-lease listings, those that state a price or rent per square foot. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Zoning and land use
- The current municipal zoning release: 1,395 zoned acres across 8 districts. Shares are of zoned land, so parcels the release leaves unclassified are excluded from the mix.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- office vacancy is reported at Northeast region level, retail vacancy is reported at Northeast region level and industrial vacancy is reported at Northeast region level.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
