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August 21, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Falls Church, VA Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

What homes actually sell for in Falls Church: a median closing price of $1,013,000 across 242 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, plus the full price spread.

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Falls Church, VA Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Falls Church, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Falls Church 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: 242
  • Median sold price, last 12 months: $1,013,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $520
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $600,000 and $1,375,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 242 closed sales in Falls Church over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $1,013,000. 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 $600,000 and $1,375,000. 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 240 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $414 and $664 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Falls Church, VA (September 2026)

The median home price in Falls Church is $1,013,000, measured across the 242 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $600,000 and $1,375,000.

Where Falls Church sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Falls Church
Closed sale prices over the last 12 months. Middle half of sales: $600k to $1.38M
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$270k to $664k: 56 sales$270k$664k to $1.06M: 58 sales58sales$1.06M to $1.45M: 51 sales$1.06M$1.45M to $1.85M: 22 sales$1.85M to $2.24M: 17 sales$1.85MMedian $1.01M

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Falls Church 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 $600,000 and $1,375,000. Among the 57 Virginia markets with a published band, Falls Church's middle-half spread ($600,000 to $1,375,000) ranks 51st from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

Median sold price per square foot
Falls Church 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: $464 per square foot across 20 sales$464OctNov 2025: $500 per square foot across 16 sales$500Dec 2025: $704 per square foot across 15 sales$704DecJan 2026: $576 per square foot across 18 sales$576Feb 2026: $553 per square foot across 11 sales$553FebMar 2026: $632 per square foot across 22 sales$632Apr 2026: $439 per square foot across 40 sales$439AprMay 2026: $499 per square foot across 35 sales$499Jun 2026: $516 per square foot across 19 sales$516JunJul 2026: $495 per square foot across 12 sales$495Aug 2026: $522 per square foot across 21 sales$522Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 21 days, across 104 Falls Church closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 23 days, across 85 Falls Church 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 242 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Falls Church angle

Falls Church therefore pairs a difficult anchoring problem with unusually good material for solving it. The wide band means $1,013,000 is a weak guide for a single address, since the closings around it are spread far apart. The depth means you do not have to rely on it. The band is close to even around $1,013,000: the ground down to $600,000 and the ground up to $1,375,000 are about the same. A comp set that drifts low misprices about as much as one that drifts high, so spend your effort on matching rather than on placement.

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 Falls Church 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: Falls Church, VA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5127200
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 242
Median sold price: $1,013,000
Median sold $/sqft: $520 (240 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 Falls Church over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Falls Church 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 242 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $1,050,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Falls Church?

The median sold price in Falls Church over the last 12 months is $1,013,000, measured across 242 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Falls Church last month?

Resideline tracked 21 closed sales in Falls Church in August 2026, out of 242 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 Falls Church?

The middle half of Falls Church sales over the last 12 months closed between $600,000 and $1,375,000, with a median of $1,013,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Falls Church?

Among qualifying Falls Church closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median sold price per square foot was $520, measured across 240 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

What is the biggest pitfall when valuing a Falls Church home from sale data?

Anchoring on the citywide middle. The $600,000 to $1,375,000 band here is wider than most markets we track, so $1,013,000 sits amid widely spread closings and pins down very little for a single address. Let that filtered set carry the estimate, and use the citywide figures as a check at the end.

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