Best Places to Buy Rental Property in West Virginia (2026)

There is no honest way to rank West Virginia cities by rental return without rent data, and this page does not have it. What it does have is transaction evidence: the median price homes actually closed at inside each city's limits, and how many closings happened. That answers the two questions that come before any cash flow analysis, what it costs to get in and whether you can get back out.

What this page measures, and what it does not

Every city below cleared at least 100 closings in its reporting window, which filters out markets too thin to read. They are ranked cheapest first by median closed price, from $136,450 to $275,000. You will not find rent estimates, rent-to-price ratios, cap rates, cash-on-cash projections or gross yield rankings here. Resideline does not have verified rent data for these cities, so publishing those numbers would be invention rather than analysis. Entry price and transaction volume are what the data supports. Every figure describes closings inside the city limits, not the wider postal area that shares the city's name. The two can differ a lot: a postal area usually reaches into surrounding townships, which pulls the median toward whatever those townships are worth. West Virginia's statewide median closed price is $259,990 across 8,373 tracked closings.

The rankings

1. Huntington, $136,450, 328 closings

At $136,450 the entry price is about 52 percent of the West Virginia median. Resideline tracked 328 closings there over the last last six months, roughly 55 a month. About 92 percent of those closings are houses, so the figure describes that segment rather than every property type. Full detail is on the Huntington market page.

2. Fairmont, $164,000, 271 closings

At $164,000 the entry price is about 63 percent of the West Virginia median. Resideline tracked 271 closings there over the last last 12 months, roughly 23 a month. About 95 percent of those closings are houses, so the figure describes that segment rather than every property type. Full detail is on the Fairmont market page.

3. Charleston, $201,500, 292 closings

At $201,500 the entry price is about 78 percent of the West Virginia median. Resideline tracked 292 closings there over the last last six months, roughly 49 a month. About 85 percent of those closings are houses, so the figure describes that segment rather than every property type. Full detail is on the Charleston market page.

4. Morgantown, $273,500, 178 closings

At $273,500 the entry price is about 105 percent of the West Virginia median. Resideline tracked 178 closings there over the last last six months, roughly 30 a month. About 81 percent of those closings are houses, so the figure describes that segment rather than every property type. Full detail is on the Morgantown market page.

5. Martinsburg, $275,000, 224 closings

At $275,000 the entry price is about 106 percent of the West Virginia median. Resideline tracked 224 closings there over the last last six months, roughly 37 a month. Full detail is on the Martinsburg market page.

How to use this list

Treat it as a shortlist, not an answer. A citywide median cannot price a specific address: property type, size, condition and location move a number far more than the city line does. Run any address on this list through Resideline for the comparable set behind its value.

Figures last updated August 23, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.