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August 21, 2026· Updated October 3, 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 $1,015,203 across 240 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 October 2026.

The snapshot

  • •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 240
  • •Median sold price, last 12 months: $1,015,203
  • •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $519
  • •Middle half of sales closed between: $594,000 and $1,375,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 240 closed sales in Falls Church over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $1,015,203. 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 $594,000 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 238 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $410 and $659 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

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

The median home price in Falls Church is $1,015,203, measured across the 240 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $594,000 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: $594k to $1.38M
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$270k to $664k: 56 sales56sales$270k$664k to $1.06M: 55 sales$1.06M to $1.45M: 51 sales$1.06M$1.45M to $1.85M: 21 sales$1.85M to $2.24M: 18 sales$1.85MMedian $1.02M

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 $594,000 and $1,375,000. Among the 60 Virginia markets with a published band, Falls Church's middle-half spread ($594,000 to $1,375,000) ranks 54th 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 Sep 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 11 months plotted, 1 month suppressed under the 10-closing floor and drawn as empty slots.
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Oct 2025: $464 per square foot across 20 sales$464Nov 2025: $500 per square foot across 16 sales$500NovDec 2025: $704 per square foot across 15 sales$704Jan 2026: $576 per square foot across 18 sales$576JanFeb 2026: $553 per square foot across 11 sales$553Mar 2026: $632 per square foot across 22 sales$632MarApr 2026: $439 per square foot across 40 sales$439May 2026: $499 per square foot across 35 sales$499MayJun 2026: $516 per square foot across 19 sales$516Jul 2026: $590 per square foot across 14 sales$590JulAug 2026: $524 per square foot across 22 sales$524Sep 2026: fewer than 10 qualifying sales recordedSep

How long a sale takes here

  • •Listed to under contract: a median of 21 days, across 105 Falls Church closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
  • •Contract to closing: a median of 23 days, across 88 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 240 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 $1,015,203 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. Closings are spread about as far below the median as above it.

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, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR 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: October 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 240
Median sold price: $1,015,203
Median sold $/sqft: $519 (238 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 240 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $1,100,000.

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 $1,015,203, measured across 240 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Falls Church last month?

Resideline has tracked 6 closed sales in Falls Church in September 2026 so far, out of 240 closings tracked over the last 12 months. The most recent month keeps filling in for several weeks as closings are recorded, so this count will rise. 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 $594,000 and $1,375,000, with a median of $1,015,203.

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 $519, measured across 238 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 $594,000 to $1,375,000 band here is wider than most markets we track, so $1,015,203 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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