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

If you invest in or around Cookeville, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Cookeville sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 264
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $330,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $188
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $251,000 and $419,078

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 264 closed sales in Cookeville over the last six months, with a median closing price of $330,000. 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 $251,000 and $419,078. 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. 91% of the Cookeville 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 257 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $158 and $218 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Cookeville, TN (October 2026)

The median home price in Cookeville is $330,000, measured across the 264 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $251,000 and $419,078.

Where Cookeville sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Cookeville 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 $251,000 and $419,078. Among the 70 Tennessee markets with a published band, Cookeville's middle-half spread ($251,000 to $419,078) ranks 34th 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 49th 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 31 days, across 110 Cookeville closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 102 Cookeville closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Cookeville angle

Cookeville is close to typical in spread, which puts the burden squarely on comp quality. Across 264 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $330,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $251,000 and $419,078. The quartile band is close to typical for the markets we track and leans a little longer above the median than below it. That is wide enough that the median cannot settle a valuation on its own, and narrow enough that a well-matched set of closings should converge on a defensible number. With a sample thinner than most markets we track, add filters in order of importance and watch the count as you go.

Cookeville market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Cookeville ZIP codes: 38506 · 38501.

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, 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 Cookeville 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: Cookeville, TN
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4716920
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 264
Median sold price: $330,000
Median sold $/sqft: $188 (257 qualifying)
Property mix: 91% 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 Cookeville over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Cookeville 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 264 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $339,450.