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August 21, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Berkley, MI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Berkley: a median closing price of $340,000 across 175 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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Berkley, MI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

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

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 6 months: 175
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $340,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $228
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $295,000 and $403,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 175 closed sales in Berkley over the last six months, with a median closing price of $340,000. 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 $295,000 and $403,000. 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. 99% of the Berkley 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 175 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $195 and $273 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Berkley, MI (September 2026)

The median home price in Berkley is $340,000, measured across the 175 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $295,000 and $403,000.

Where Berkley sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Berkley
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $295k to $403k
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$186k to $261k: 17 sales$186k$261k to $337k: 60 sales60sales$337k to $413k: 51 sales$337k$413k to $489k: 13 sales$489k to $565k: 10 sales$489kMedian $340k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Berkley over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $295,000 and $403,000. Among the 78 Michigan markets with a published band, Berkley's middle-half spread ($295,000 to $403,000) ranks 2nd from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 8th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
Berkley monthly medians for the complete months inside the last six months, Apr 2026 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 5 months plotted.
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Apr 2026: $237 per square foot across 32 sales$237AprMay 2026: $225 per square foot across 24 sales$225MayJun 2026: $232 per square foot across 38 sales$232JunJul 2026: $229 per square foot across 38 sales$229JulAug 2026: $207 per square foot across 19 sales$207Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 12 days, across 122 Berkley closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 21 days, across 131 Berkley closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 175 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Berkley angle

Berkley pairs conditions that pull in opposite directions. The quartile band is tighter than most markets we track, which argues for leaning on $340,000. The tight band is the more useful of the pair. When $295,000 and $403,000 sit close together, the closings we tracked look more alike, so a citywide midpoint carries more information about any single address than it would in a spread out market. Pick the attributes that matter most for the property, usually type and size, and hold the rest loose. Because the upper half of the band is wider, a comp set skewed toward the top of the range will push an estimate further off than one skewed toward the bottom.

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

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Berkley, MI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2607660
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 175
Median sold price: $340,000
Median sold $/sqft: $228 (175 qualifying)
Property mix: 99% 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 Berkley over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Berkley 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 13% of the 175 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $346,500.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Berkley?

The median sold price in Berkley over the last 6 months is $340,000, measured across 175 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Berkley last month?

Resideline tracked 19 closed sales in Berkley in August 2026, out of 175 closings tracked over the last six months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.

What is the typical sale price range in Berkley?

The middle half of Berkley sales over the last six months closed between $295,000 and $403,000, with a median of $340,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Berkley?

Among qualifying Berkley closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $228, measured across 175 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

What makes valuing a Berkley property tricky?

A narrow band helps: closings cluster, which means the citywide midpoint is a more informative anchor than it would be elsewhere. The risk is over filtering, cutting on type, size, age and condition all at once until only a few sales survive and one of them happens to be unusual. Widen deliberately, a single attribute at a time, and keep track of what each step cost you in similarity.

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