Cedar Falls, IA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Cedar Falls 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: 305
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $300,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $158
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $219,900 and $442,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 305 closed sales in Cedar Falls over the last six months, with a median closing price of $300,000. 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 $219,900 and $442,000. 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. 87% of the Cedar Falls 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 295 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $133 and $189 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Cedar Falls, IA (September 2026)

The median home price in Cedar Falls is $300,000, measured across the 305 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $219,900 and $442,000.

Where Cedar Falls sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Cedar Falls 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 $219,900 and $442,000. Among the 24 Iowa markets with a published band, Cedar Falls's middle-half spread ($219,900 to $442,000) 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 78th 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 9 days, across 226 Cedar Falls closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 38 days, across 232 Cedar Falls closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Cedar Falls angle

Cedar Falls runs wider than its median suggests. Over the last six months we tracked 305 closings at a median sale price of $300,000, with the middle half of sales between $219,900 and $442,000, a spread wider than most markets we track. The distance from the median up to the upper quartile exceeds the distance down to the lower quartile, so the market's expensive half stretches out while its affordable half stays comparatively contained. If your subject reads stronger than an ordinary Cedar Falls sale, expect legitimate values across a long upper range and demand comps that resemble it closely; if it reads weaker, the shorter lower stretch leaves less room for an estimate to drift before it needs justifying.

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 Cedar Falls 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: Cedar Falls, IA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1911755
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 305
Median sold price: $300,000
Median sold $/sqft: $158 (295 qualifying)
Property mix: 87% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Cedar Falls over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.