Bethesda, MD Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Bethesda produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 461
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $1,250,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $474
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $785,000 and $1,800,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 461 closed sales in Bethesda over the last six months, with a median closing price of $1,250,000. 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 $785,000 and $1,800,000. 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 458 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $382 and $569 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Bethesda, MD (September 2026)

The median home price in Bethesda is $1,250,000, measured across the 461 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $785,000 and $1,800,000.

Where Bethesda sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Bethesda 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 $785,000 and $1,800,000. Among the 40 Maryland markets with a published band, Bethesda's middle-half spread ($785,000 to $1,800,000) ranks 37th 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 14 days, across 274 Bethesda closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 23 days, across 261 Bethesda closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Bethesda angle

Bethesda sits near the top of everything we track for closed-sale spread, and at these price levels a wide band is expensive to ignore. Across 461 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $1,250,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $785,000 and $1,800,000. The two halves of that band are not the same width: $1,250,000 up to $1,800,000 covers more ground than $785,000 up to $1,250,000. Sales above the midpoint are therefore further apart, so an estimate that lands up there needs comps drawn from up there and a wider stated range. Comp depth is close to typical for the cities we track, so require real matches on the attributes you can verify and let the citywide median do nothing more than tell you the estimate is in the right market.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. 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 Bethesda 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: Bethesda, MD
Geography: Census-designated place, not an incorporated municipality, Census place 2407125
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 461
Median sold price: $1,250,000
Median sold $/sqft: $474 (458 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 Bethesda over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track across the Bethesda 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 15% of the 461 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $1,265,000.