Bethel, CT Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Bethel, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Bethel 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: 228
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $496,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $276
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $390,000 and $640,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 228 closed sales in Bethel over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $496,000. 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 $390,000 and $640,000. 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. Across the 228 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $237 and $302 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Bethel, CT (September 2026)

The median home price in Bethel is $496,000, measured across the 228 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $390,000 and $640,000.

Where Bethel sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Bethel 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 $390,000 and $640,000. Among the 52 Connecticut markets with a published band, Bethel's middle-half spread ($390,000 to $640,000) ranks 19th 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 45th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 26 days, across 102 Bethel closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 32 days, across 103 Bethel closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Bethel angle

Bethel returned 228 tracked closings over the last 12 months, a median closed sale price of $496,000, and a middle half from $390,000 to $640,000. Both the spread and the sample sit close to typical for the markets we track, so this is a market that rewards ordinary discipline rather than special handling. There is more room above $496,000 than below it, which means the optimistic case in Bethel is the one carrying the heavier burden of proof. Start from matched closed sales, then use the middle half to test whether your answer is plausible.

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 Bethel 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: Bethel, CT
Geography: Census-designated place, not an incorporated municipality, Census place 0904790
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 228
Median sold price: $496,000
Median sold $/sqft: $276 (228 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 Bethel over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track across the Bethel Census-designated area 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 23% of the 228 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $500,000.