Bristol, TN Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Bristol 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: 261
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $245,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $158
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $175,000 and $345,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 261 closed sales in Bristol over the last six months, with a median closing price of $245,000. 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 $175,000 and $345,000. 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. 82% of the Bristol 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 259 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $127 and $189 per square foot.

Figures last updated November 4, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Bristol, TN (October 2026)

The median home price in Bristol is $245,000, measured across the 261 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $175,000 and $345,000.

Where Bristol sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Bristol 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 $175,000 and $345,000. Among the 70 Tennessee markets with a published band, Bristol's middle-half spread ($175,000 to $345,000) ranks 55th 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 76th percentile of the 2,291 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of November 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 13 days, across 161 Bristol closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 32 days, across 154 Bristol 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 261 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Bristol angle

Bristol shows up in our data with 261 tracked closings over the last six months, a median closed sale price of $245,000, and a middle half of sales between $175,000 and $345,000. That band is wider than most markets we track, and there is more room above the median than below it, so the variation leans toward the upside of the midpoint. Two practical consequences follow. First, the citywide median is a weak stand-in for any specific address, so a valuation needs matched closed sales rather than a market average. Second, an estimate near $345,000 is a claim the subject itself has to justify, and the comps that justify it need to share whatever makes the subject worth that number.

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, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR 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 Bristol address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Bristol, TN
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4708540
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 261
Median sold price: $245,000
Median sold $/sqft: $158 (259 qualifying)
Property mix: 82% 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 Bristol over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Bristol 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 261 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $255,000.