Alexandria, LA Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

Alexandria produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last 12 months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 306
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $188,750
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $108
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $125,000 and $279,500

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 306 closed sales in Alexandria over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $188,750. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $125,000 and $279,500. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 90% of the Alexandria closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 306 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $83 and $132 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Alexandria, LA (September 2026)

The median home price in Alexandria is $188,750, measured across the 306 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $125,000 and $279,500.

Where Alexandria sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Alexandria over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $125,000 and $279,500. Among the 28 Louisiana markets with a published band, Alexandria's middle-half spread ($125,000 to $279,500) ranks 23rd from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 33 days, across 138 Alexandria closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 101 Alexandria closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Alexandria angle

Read $188,750 as indicative only. It marks the midpoint of a broad set of tracked sales and does not describe a particular house, and with fewer closings behind it the figure itself moves more from refresh to refresh than it would in a deeper market. Strict filters on type, size and condition can leave you with too few Alexandria comps to defend, so relax one criterion at a time and record which one you relaxed. The upper half of the band is the wider side, so an upper-tier subject is the case where a loosely matched comp set will hurt most: those comps will sit below where your subject belongs.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in Louisiana: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Louisiana homes, and most Louisiana estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Louisiana one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Alexandria address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Alexandria, LA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2200975
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 306
Median sold price: $188,750
Median sold $/sqft: $108 (306 qualifying)
Property mix: 90% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Alexandria over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is.