Calera, AL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Calera closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last six months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 303
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $263,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $159
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $227,000 and $299,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 303 closed sales in Calera over the last six months, with a median closing price of $263,900. 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 $227,000 and $299,900. 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. 95% of the Calera 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 303 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $143 and $175 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Calera, AL (October 2026)

The median home price in Calera is $263,900, measured across the 303 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $227,000 and $299,900.

Where Calera sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Calera 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 $227,000 and $299,900. Among the 41 Alabama markets with a published band, Calera's middle-half spread ($227,000 to $299,900) ranks 1st 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 4th percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 50 days, across 146 Calera closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 116 Calera closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Calera angle

Calera is one of the easier markets to read in our closed data. Across 303 tracked closings over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $263,900, and the middle half of sales closed between $227,000 and $299,900, among the tightest spreads we track. When closings cluster this closely, the median carries real information: an ordinary Calera sale does not stray far from it, so the productive question is whether your subject is ordinary. If it is, the median is a defensible starting number. If it is not, the same tight band means the difference will be visible quickly, and you will want matched closed sales to quantify it rather than assert it.

Calera market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Calera ZIP codes: 35040.

From market read to offer price

A tight market makes the next step easier: the citywide anchor sits close to most homes, and a report only has to explain the gap. 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 Calera 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: Calera, AL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0111416
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 303
Median sold price: $263,900
Median sold $/sqft: $159 (303 qualifying)
Property mix: 95% 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 Calera over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Calera 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 16% of the 303 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $270,000.