Fairmont, WV Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

Fairmont produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last 12 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 12 months: 271
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $164,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $114
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $102,500 and $235,800

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 271 closed sales in Fairmont over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $164,000. 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 $102,500 and $235,800. 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. 95% of the Fairmont 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 264 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $76 and $144 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Fairmont, WV (August 2026)

The median home price in Fairmont is $164,000, measured across the 271 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $102,500 and $235,800.

Where Fairmont sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Fairmont over the last 12 months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $102,500 and $235,800. 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 39 days, across 52 Fairmont closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Fairmont angle

The distance from $102,500 to $235,800 is wider than most markets we track, meaning tracked closings sit far apart and the citywide middle stands at the centre of a broad spread rather than near any particular sale. That has a direct consequence for method: $164,000 should inform your sense of the recorded sales, not your estimate for an address. The estimate has to come from a comp set matched on property type, size and condition, and 271 closings is a solid enough sample to build one. The band widens above the middle. Higher-priced sales are therefore more scattered and harder to match closely, so for those properties the genuinely comparable closings should outweigh the shape of the wider set. If your comp set had to be widened, note which direction its middle travelled as you did it.

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 11,465+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Fairmont 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: Fairmont, WV
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 271
Median sold price: $164,000
Median sold $/sqft: $114 (264 qualifying)
Property mix: 95% houses
https://resideline.com/blog/fairmont-wv-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 Fairmont over the last 12 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 19% of the 271 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $176,900.