Decatur, GA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

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

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 215
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $674,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $343
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $439,900 and $995,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 215 closed sales in Decatur over the last six months, with a median closing price of $674,900. 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 $439,900 and $995,000. 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 205 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $285 and $419 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Decatur, GA (September 2026)

The median home price in Decatur is $674,900, measured across the 215 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $439,900 and $995,000.

Where Decatur sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Decatur 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 $439,900 and $995,000. Among the 90 Georgia markets with a published band, Decatur's middle-half spread ($439,900 to $995,000) ranks 82nd 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 86th 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 18 days, across 155 Decatur closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 21 days, across 142 Decatur closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Decatur Real Estate Market Trends in 2026

Among the Decatur closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $396 per square foot (121 sales), condos at $304 (47 sales) and townhouses at $279 (36 sales).

The Decatur angle

The spread of closed prices in Decatur runs wider than most markets we track, so the citywide median should never be the backbone of a valuation here. Across 215 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $674,900, and the middle half of sales closed between $439,900 and $995,000, and the reach above the median is far longer than the reach below it. In practice that means comp selection is doing almost all the work: match on the attributes you can verify, and be willing to reject a nearby sale that does not resemble the subject. The sample runs around the middle of the markets we track, so rejecting comps is something you can afford.

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 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, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it depends on a confirmed closing price reaching us, which happens for only a small share of Georgia homes, so the accuracy scoreboard is a national record rather than a Georgia one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Decatur 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: Decatur, GA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1322052
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 215
Median sold price: $674,900
Median sold $/sqft: $343 (205 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 Decatur over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Decatur 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 11% of the 215 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $650,000.