Cottonwood, AZ Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Cottonwood, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Cottonwood 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: 154
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $340,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $236
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $200,000 and $415,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 154 closed sales in Cottonwood over the last six months, with a median closing price of $340,000. 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 $200,000 and $415,000. 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 153 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $130 and $279 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Cottonwood, AZ (October 2026)

The median home price in Cottonwood is $340,000, measured across the 154 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $200,000 and $415,000.

Where Cottonwood sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Cottonwood 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 $200,000 and $415,000. Among the 49 Arizona markets with a published band, Cottonwood's middle-half spread ($200,000 to $415,000) ranks 42nd 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 81st 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 29 days, across 80 Cottonwood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 65 Cottonwood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Cottonwood angle

Cottonwood's last six months of tracked data show 154 closings, a median closed sale price of $340,000, and a middle half of sales reaching from $200,000 up to $415,000. The band is wider than most markets we track, and it reaches much further below the median than above it, so the market's affordable half covers especially broad ground. A citywide midpoint smooths over that variety, which is why the median should open the analysis in Cottonwood rather than close it. Work from closed sales that genuinely resemble the subject, be careful with low-priced candidates that look like automatic wins, and expect two honest estimates to differ unless both are grounded in matched comps.

Cottonwood market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Cottonwood ZIP codes: 86326.

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 Cottonwood 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: Cottonwood, AZ
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0416410
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 154
Median sold price: $340,000
Median sold $/sqft: $236 (153 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 Cottonwood over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.