Across the Miami Valley, the homes that stand out are often the ones that offer something the typical listing cannot, like land, privacy and room to spread out. In Clayton, a 3.874-acre property with a pool, a pool house and a heated four-car garage just closed at $440,000, one of the strongest sales in the neighborhood this year.
A $440,000 Sale on 3.874 Acres in Clayton
Most of the sales that define a neighborhood’s market are everyday ones: a three-bedroom on a standard lot, a condo, a starter home. Every so often a property closes that shows how high the top of the range can reach. On November 2, 2026, 7897 Flower Avenue in Clayton sold for $440,000. It is a four-bedroom home with 4,333 square feet of living space on 3.874 acres, and the land backs directly to a park.
That price ranks 15th out of 173 sales in Clayton over the past 12 months, which places it in roughly the top nine percent of everything that changed hands. It came in 63 percent above the neighborhood median sale price of $270,000. The home was listed at $459,000 and closed after 45 days on the market, a difference of $19,000 or 4.1 percent from the asking price.
The numbers are useful on their own, but the property behind them is what makes this sale worth a closer look. The listing describes a 1956 main residence with radiant floor heat, several distinct living areas and a four-season room, plus a 50-by-20-foot in-ground pool, a detached pool house with its own kitchen and bedroom, and a heated four-car garage. It also has a whole-home gas generator that tests itself every week. That is a lot of infrastructure for one parcel, and the market paid for it.
Start with the house, because the house is where most of the square footage is.
A 1956 Home With Room to Spread Out
The main residence was built in 1956 and offers four bedrooms, five full bathrooms and 4,333 square feet. At the $440,000 sale price, that works out to about $102 per square foot. The neighborhood’s median over the past 12 months is $140 per square foot, so this buyer paid roughly 27 percent less per square foot than the typical Clayton sale, and the purchase included acreage, a pool and a second building.
The listing points to multiple living areas, and the room-by-room description supports that. The living room has a large picture window, a wood-burning fireplace and radiant floor heat. The dining room has a bay window and enough space to serve as a real gathering room, and the kitchen is set up for cooking at volume, with double ovens, a cooktop, a dishwasher, a refrigerator and a built-in china cabinet. The kitchen is also plumbed for three water sources: city water, treated water and well water.
A large family room adds a wood-burning stove, radiant heat and a mini-split system for heating and cooling. In a house of this size, having a second place to gather that controls its own temperature is a practical advantage, because it lets the household use the rooms it wants without conditioning the whole building.
The primary suite is described as generous, with an electric fireplace, a soaking tub, a separate shower, radiant floor heat and forced-air cooling. Three more bedrooms complete the sleeping quarters, which the listing frames as ample space for family and guests.
Then there is the four-season room, finished in knotty pine with stone accents and served by its own mini-split system. Its windows open and close automatically when the sensors detect rain. It is a small detail, but it is the kind of feature that explains why a home with this many rooms still draws attention to one particular space.
The Pool, the Pool House and the Four-Car Garage
Outside, the property is built around a 50-foot by 20-foot in-ground pool with a 10-foot deep end, a waterfall feature and rock landscaping. Pools of that length are uncommon on residential lots, and a deep end of that depth makes it a pool built for more than wading. The park along the back boundary means the view past the pool is open green space rather than another property line.
The detached pool house is the part of the listing that changes what the property can be used for. It has a bedroom, a kitchen, a family room, a breakfast area, cathedral ceilings and a fireplace. It also has a washer and dryer and two full bathrooms with showers. That is a complete second living space, not a changing room with a sink. Depending on the owner, it can serve as a guest house, a place for extended family or a retreat set apart from the main home. The listing counts five full baths for the property, and two of them sit in this building alone.
The garage follows the same scale. It is a heated four-car garage with built-in cabinets, a generator panel and an electrical panel. A separate electric outbuilding sits on the grounds as well. For anyone with vehicles, tools, a workshop or a collection, a heated four-bay building is rare in any price range, and it matters as much to a certain kind of buyer as the pool does to another.
Taken together, the pool, pool house, garage and outbuilding turn 3.874 acres into something closer to a private compound with a park behind it. That is the context for the price. The buyer was not paying for a house alone.
Heat, Water and Backup Power
The systems on this property are described in more detail than most listings offer. The home is heated by a boiler that feeds radiant floor heat throughout much of the house, and the listing notes yearly boiler servicing. The property also has annual maintenance by a local plumbing, heating and air contractor. For a 4,333-square-foot house with several heating zones, a documented service routine is the type of detail that a buyer’s inspector and lender both look at closely.
Backup power is covered by a whole-home gas generator that runs an automatic self-test every week. The garage has its own generator panel, which suggests the outbuildings were planned into the system and not left out of it. A water softener is in place, and a new 85-gallon electric water heater was installed in 2024, which removes one of the larger replacement costs from the near-term list.
Water comes from two sources: the property is served by city water and also has a private well. That combination is part of why the kitchen description mentions city, treated and well water, and it gives the owner flexibility for irrigation or pool needs that a city-only connection would not.
The home sold as-is. With a 1956 build date and this many mechanical systems, that is a normal condition for a property of its age and complexity, and the price reflects a buyer who weighed the inventory of features against the work a house of this vintage can need. A sale in the $440,000 range on that basis says something about how Clayton buyers value land and infrastructure.
How $440,000 Compares With the Clayton Market
Over the past 12 months, Clayton recorded 173 sales. The median sale price was $270,000, the median price per square foot was $140, and the median home spent 37 days on the market. The highest sale in that period was $780,000.
Against those figures, 7897 Flower Avenue lands in an unusual position. Its $440,000 price is $170,000 above the median, or 63 percent higher. Its rank of 15 of 173 means only 14 homes in Clayton sold for more during the year. Its 45 days on the market is only eight days longer than the neighborhood median, which is a short stretch for a property at this price with this much specialization.
The price per square foot tells the second half of the story. At $102, the sale was well below the neighborhood’s $140 median, even as the total price climbed far above it. That gap is the effect of size and land. Larger homes and homes on bigger parcels tend to sell for fewer dollars per square foot than compact houses, because the extra space is priced at a discount. A buyer at the upper end of the market gets more house and more ground for the money, and a seller with a unique property still reaches a number that sits in the top tier of neighborhood sales.
The asking price was $459,000, and the final price was $440,000, so the sale closed at about 95.9 percent of the list price. With a property this specific, a negotiation of that size reflects a buyer and seller finding a shared number, and it holds a comparable value on the books for the next listing that has pool, acreage and outbuildings.
The Closest Comparable Sales
The most recent nearby closings show how wide Clayton’s range is and where this sale sits in it.
The nearest match in size is the sale on Country View Lane, which closed on October 23, 2026 for $780,000. It is a four-bedroom home with 6,300 square feet, about 45 percent larger than 7897 Flower Avenue, and that price matches the highest sale in the neighborhood over the past 12 months. At roughly $124 per square foot, it also sits below the neighborhood median on a per-foot basis, which is consistent with the pattern that very large homes price lower per foot. Together, these two sales within about two weeks of each other show that Clayton buyers are paying for large, feature-rich properties.
A different type of four-bedroom shows up on Cilantro Way, where a 1,771-square-foot home sold for $379,000 on October 23, 2026. That is about $214 per square foot, roughly double the per-foot figure for Flower Avenue, but it comes with far less living space and no acreage, so the two are priced on different logic. The Cilantro Way sale is a useful reminder that a buyer looking for four bedrooms in Clayton can spend $379,000 on a compact home or $440,000 on a much larger one with land and a pool.
The Garber Road sale on October 20, 2026 offers another reference point: a four-bedroom home with 1,953 square feet that sold for $187,000, about $96 per square foot. At the lower end of the market, the per-foot number is close to what this larger property fetched, but the total price is less than half. On Baldwin Hills Drive, a three-bedroom with 1,395 square feet sold for $230,000 on October 28, 2026, which is about $165 per square foot.
Taken together, these sales form a clear ladder. Starter and mid-range homes close between roughly $187,000 and $380,000, and larger, land-rich properties close above $400,000. 7897 Flower Avenue sits on the second rung, and the buyer paid the price of the upper tier for a package that includes the house, the grounds and a second building.
What the Result Means for Clayton
A single sale rarely changes a neighborhood, but it does mark where the market is willing to go. Clayton’s median price of $270,000 describes the typical transaction. A $440,000 sale that ranks 15th out of 173 shows there is a steady pool of buyers for properties with room, privacy and amenities at the top of the range.
For owners of larger Clayton homes and acreage, this sale adds a recent, documented comparable. It shows that a 1956 home with updated systems, a generator, a pool and outbuildings can close within 45 days at a price roughly 4 percent under asking. For appraisers and lenders, it is a reference for properties where the standard house-only comparison does not capture the value of land or secondary structures.
For buyers, it is a reminder that Clayton offers more than one kind of home. The same neighborhood that produced a $187,000 four-bedroom on Garber Road and a $379,000 four-bedroom on Cilantro Way also produced a 3.874-acre property backing to a park. The range is wide, and the buyers who shop it have real choices.
Sales like 7897 Flower Avenue are also a useful counterweight to the idea that only new construction or heavily renovated houses command top dollar. This one is a 1956 home, sold as-is, and it still landed among the top 15 prices of the year because it offered something hard to replicate: acreage, a pool, a second living space and a level of mechanical preparation that most older homes lack. That is a pattern worth watching as the Clayton market moves into 2027.
Recognizing the Professionals Behind the Outcome
Listing agent Pamela Bornhorst of Keller Williams Home Town Realty brought the home to market, and Todd Broomhall of Keller Williams Home Town Realty represented the buyer. Results like this come from careful pricing, strong presentation and steady work through closing, and both sides of the deal deserve recognition.
Listing data courtesy of Dayton REALTORS® MLS. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
More Common Questions About Clayton
Here are answers to some practical questions about this sale and the Clayton housing market.
How much did 7897 Flower Avenue sell for?
The home sold for $440,000 on November 2, 2026. It was listed at $459,000, so it closed $19,000, or 4.1 percent, under the asking price after 45 days on the market.
How does the sale price compare with the typical Clayton home?
Clayton’s median sale price over the past 12 months is $270,000, so this sale came in 63 percent above the median. It ranks 15th out of 173 sales in that period, which places it in roughly the top nine percent.
What size is the home and the lot?
The home was built in 1956 and has four bedrooms, five full baths and 4,333 square feet of living space. It sits on 3.874 acres that back to a park, and the sale price works out to about $102 per square foot.
What outdoor and extra buildings come with the property?
The listing describes a 50-by-20-foot in-ground pool with a 10-foot deep end and a waterfall, a detached pool house with a bedroom, kitchen and two full bathrooms, a heated four-car garage with built-in cabinets and an additional electric outbuilding.
How long do homes typically take to sell in Clayton?
The median home in Clayton spent 37 days on the market over the past 12 months. This property sold after 45 days, which is close to that typical pace even at a price well above the neighborhood median.
Why is the price per square foot lower than the neighborhood median?
The Clayton median is $140 per square foot, while this sale came in near $102. Larger homes and homes on bigger parcels usually sell for fewer dollars per square foot, because the added space is priced at a discount compared with compact houses.
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