Barnegat, NJ Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

In a market the size of Barnegat, individual sales move the needle. The figures below rest on 43 tracked closings over the last 12 months, so read them as the direction of the market rather than a precise price for any one street.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 43
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $575,000 (low-volume sample)
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $250
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $465,000 and $660,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 43 closed sales in Barnegat over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $575,000. 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 $465,000 and $660,000. 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.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Barnegat, NJ (August 2026)

The median home price in Barnegat is $575,000, measured across the 43 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $465,000 and $660,000.

Where Barnegat sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Barnegat over the last 12 months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $465,000 and $660,000. 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 27 days, across 35 Barnegat closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 44 days, across 33 Barnegat closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Barnegat angle

The data will not push back on a lazy method, so the discipline has to come from you. The core discipline is order of operations. Filter on structure before you look at price. Property type first, then a living-area window around your subject, then a condition tier if it is available. Reading the median of what survives gives you a figure derived from comparable property; reading $575,000 and adjusting toward your subject gives you a figure derived from the whole city with a guess attached. Use $465,000 and $660,000 at the end, as a placement check on an answer you already built.

From market read to offer price

A thin market punishes generic pricing; the way to firm up a number here is the specific property and its handful of true comps. 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 and graded against the real closing price after it sells. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,508+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Barnegat 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: Barnegat, NJ
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 43
Median sold price: $575,000
Median sold $/sqft: $250 (43 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/barnegat-nj-housing-market

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. This is a low-volume sample: treat the statistics as directional rather than precise estimates of the entire local market.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Barnegat over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. This is a low-volume market: the figures below rest on 43 closings inside the city limits, so treat the median as indicative rather than precise.