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August 27, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Blacksburg, VA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Blacksburg: a median closing price of $415,000 across 213 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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Blacksburg, VA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Blacksburg, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Blacksburg 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: 213
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $415,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $238
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $280,000 and $570,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 213 closed sales in Blacksburg over the last six months, with a median closing price of $415,000. 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 $280,000 and $570,000. 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 213 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $203 and $272 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Blacksburg, VA (September 2026)

The median home price in Blacksburg is $415,000, measured across the 213 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $280,000 and $570,000.

Where Blacksburg sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Blacksburg
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $280k to $570k
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$183k to $335k: 68 sales68sales$183k$335k to $488k: 58 sales$488k to $640k: 37 sales$488k$640k to $793k: 23 sales$793k to $945k: 7 sales$793kMedian $415k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Blacksburg 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 $280,000 and $570,000. Among the 57 Virginia markets with a published band, Blacksburg's middle-half spread ($280,000 to $570,000) ranks 46th 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 80th 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
Blacksburg 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: $247 per square foot across 54 sales$247AprMay 2026: $236 per square foot across 38 sales$236MayJun 2026: $237 per square foot across 40 sales$237JunJul 2026: $218 per square foot across 40 sales$218JulAug 2026: $238 per square foot across 25 sales$238Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 16 days, across 135 Blacksburg closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 36 days, across 138 Blacksburg 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 213 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Blacksburg angle

Across 213 tracked closings over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $415,000, but the middle half of sales stretched from $280,000 to $570,000, wider than most markets we track. The upper stretch of the band runs further from the median than the lower stretch does, so high-side results separate from the midpoint in larger steps than low-side results do. For a specific address, that combination means the citywide median tells you very little on its own; the estimate has to come from closed sales matched to the subject, with the band used to check that the final answer is defensible.

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 Blacksburg 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: Blacksburg, VA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5107784
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 213
Median sold price: $415,000
Median sold $/sqft: $238 (213 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 Blacksburg over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Blacksburg 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 213 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $444,500.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Blacksburg?

The median sold price in Blacksburg over the last 6 months is $415,000, measured across 213 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Blacksburg last month?

Resideline tracked 25 closed sales in Blacksburg in August 2026, out of 213 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 Blacksburg?

The middle half of Blacksburg sales over the last six months closed between $280,000 and $570,000, with a median of $415,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Blacksburg?

Among qualifying Blacksburg closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $238, measured across 213 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Why is the price range so wide in Blacksburg?

The closed data can show how wide, not why: half of the tracked Blacksburg closings landed between $280,000 and $570,000, a spread wider than most markets we track, and the rest closed beyond those marks. We publish the measured spread rather than an attribution. Practically, it means the median of $415,000 is a weak stand-in for any single property and matched comps carry the weight.

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