Danville, VA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Danville 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: 266
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $145,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $95
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $70,000 and $219,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 266 closed sales in Danville over the last six months, with a median closing price of $145,000. 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 $70,000 and $219,000. 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. 93% of the Danville 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 262 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $59 and $133 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Danville, VA (August 2026)

The median home price in Danville is $145,000, measured across the 266 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $70,000 and $219,000.

Where Danville sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Danville over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $70,000 and $219,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 38 days, across 47 Danville closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Danville angle

Danville carries one of the widest closed-sale spreads we track, in the top 10%. Across 266 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $145,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $70,000 and $219,000. With that much dispersion the citywide median is close to useless as a per-property anchor, since two Danville addresses can both be ordinary and still close far apart. Work from a small set of tightly matched closings, state the criteria you matched on explicitly, and expect to defend them. The sample runs thinner than most markets we track, so careful verification matters more here than volume does.

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. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,516+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Danville address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Danville, VA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 266
Median sold price: $145,000
Median sold $/sqft: $95 (262 qualifying)
Property mix: 93% houses
https://resideline.com/blog/danville-va-housing-market

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 Danville over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track inside the 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 29% of the 266 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $164,250.