Bel Air, MD Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Bel Air, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Bel Air sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 248
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $290,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $209
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $210,000 and $407,500

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 248 closed sales in Bel Air over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $290,000. 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 $210,000 and $407,500. 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. Across the 223 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $180 and $236 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Bel Air, MD (September 2026)

The median home price in Bel Air is $290,000, measured across the 248 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $210,000 and $407,500.

Where Bel Air sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Bel Air 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 $210,000 and $407,500. Among the 40 Maryland markets with a published band, Bel Air's middle-half spread ($210,000 to $407,500) ranks 35th 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 11 days, across 148 Bel Air closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 28 days, across 145 Bel Air closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Bel Air angle

Bel Air gives you the material to stop relying on the citywide median. The width undermines the midpoint as an anchor; the depth supplies the replacement. Segment on structure. Property type, then a living-area window around your subject, then a condition tier, and take the median of the survivors. In a dispersed market that subset median is the working figure, and $290,000 becomes a reference for how far your subject's kind of property sits from the city's center. The upper half of the band is the wider side, so dispersion grows as you move above the midpoint. Once you have a subset median, place it against $210,000 and $407,500 to confirm the answer sits where the comps implied, not where the city's middle would have put it.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. 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. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

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

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Bel Air, MD
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2405550
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 248
Median sold price: $290,000
Median sold $/sqft: $209 (223 qualifying)
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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 Bel Air over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Bel Air city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 18% of the 248 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $299,000.