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August 28, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Elkridge, MD Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

What homes actually sell for in Elkridge: a median closing price of $425,000 across 253 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, plus the full price spread.

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Elkridge, MD Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Elkridge, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Elkridge sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 12 months: 253
  • Median sold price, last 12 months: $425,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $245
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $341,850 and $529,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 253 closed sales in Elkridge over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $425,000. 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 $341,850 and $529,900. 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 251 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $221 and $278 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Elkridge, MD (September 2026)

The median home price in Elkridge is $425,000, measured across the 253 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $341,850 and $529,900.

Where Elkridge sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Elkridge
Closed sale prices over the last 12 months. Middle half of sales: $342k to $530k
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$241k to $343k: 52 sales$241k$343k to $445k: 72 sales72sales$445k to $546k: 65 sales$445k$546k to $648k: 25 sales$648k to $750k: 9 sales$648kMedian $425k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Elkridge over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $341,850 and $529,900. Among the 40 Maryland markets with a published band, Elkridge's middle-half spread ($341,850 to $529,900) ranks 11th 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 31st percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
Elkridge monthly medians for the complete months inside the last 12 months, Oct 2025 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 11 months plotted.
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Oct 2025: $240 per square foot across 21 sales$240OctNov 2025: $244 per square foot across 19 sales$244Dec 2025: $225 per square foot across 25 sales$225DecJan 2026: $244 per square foot across 19 sales$244Feb 2026: $239 per square foot across 16 sales$239FebMar 2026: $246 per square foot across 26 sales$246Apr 2026: $256 per square foot across 24 sales$256AprMay 2026: $259 per square foot across 19 sales$259Jun 2026: $250 per square foot across 26 sales$250JunJul 2026: $253 per square foot across 17 sales$253Aug 2026: $243 per square foot across 17 sales$243Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 16 days, across 160 Elkridge closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 25 days, across 137 Elkridge closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 253 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Elkridge angle

Elkridge is the ordinary case in our data: 253 tracked closings over the last 12 months, a median closed sale price of $425,000, and a middle half from $341,850 to $529,900, with both the spread and the sample close to typical for the markets we track. That is genuinely useful, because it means nothing about the market itself is distorting your read and the accuracy of a valuation here comes down entirely to comparable selection. The upper part of the band covers more ground than the lower part, so the same descriptive step up is worth more dollars than the equivalent step down. Start from property type and living area, and let the median act as a guardrail on the result.

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 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 Elkridge 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: Elkridge, MD
Geography: Census-designated place, not an incorporated municipality, Census place 2425750
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 253
Median sold price: $425,000
Median sold $/sqft: $245 (251 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 Elkridge over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track across the Elkridge Census-designated area 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 12% of the 253 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone matched it at $425,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Elkridge?

The median sold price in Elkridge over the last 12 months is $425,000, measured across 253 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Elkridge last month?

Resideline tracked 19 closed sales in Elkridge in August 2026, out of 253 closings tracked over the last 12 months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.

What is the typical sale price range in Elkridge?

The middle half of Elkridge sales over the last 12 months closed between $341,850 and $529,900, with a median of $425,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Elkridge?

Among qualifying Elkridge closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median sold price per square foot was $245, measured across 251 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

What limits the accuracy of an Elkridge valuation?

Your comparable selection, not the data. The spread and the sample here are both close to typical for the markets we track, which means there is no unusual scatter to fight and no unusual thinness to work around. When the market is ordinary, the error in an estimate comes from choosing closings that differ from the subject in ways you did not adjust for. Be explicit about which attributes you matched and which you priced around, and the number will hold up.

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