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August 21, 2026· Updated August 22, 2026
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Forest Grove, OR Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Forest Grove: a median closing price of $510,000 across 305 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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Forest Grove, OR Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Forest Grove closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last six months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 6 months: 305
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $510,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $261
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $447,000 and $575,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 305 closed sales in Forest Grove over the last six months, with a median closing price of $510,000. 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 $447,000 and $575,000. 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. 91% of the Forest Grove 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 305 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $231 and $303 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Forest Grove, OR (August 2026)

The median home price in Forest Grove is $510,000, measured across the 305 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $447,000 and $575,000.

Where Forest Grove sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Forest Grove
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $447k to $575k
$260k to $323k: 10 sales$260k$323k to $387k: 12 sales$387k to $450k: 47 sales$387k$450k to $514k: 69 sales$514k to $577k: 77 sales77sales$514k$577k to $640k: 25 sales$640k to $704k: 18 sales$640k$704k to $767k: 10 salesMedian $510k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Forest Grove over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $447,000 and $575,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

Median sold price per square foot
Forest Grove monthly medians over the last six months, among qualifying closings with usable living area
Feb 2026: $277 per square foot across 21 sales$277Feb 2026Mar 2026: $250 per square foot across 49 sales$250Mar 2026Apr 2026: $256 per square foot across 72 sales$256Apr 2026May 2026: $281 per square foot across 59 sales$281May 2026Jun 2026: $261 per square foot across 54 sales$261Jun 2026Jul 2026: $260 per square foot across 38 sales$260Jul 2026Aug 2026: $279 per square foot across 12 sales$279Aug 2026

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 23 days, across 188 Forest Grove closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 238 Forest Grove closings Resideline tracked in the last six 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 305 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Forest Grove angle

Forest Grove prices into a narrow corridor. Across 305 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $510,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $447,000 and $575,000. That quartile spread sits in the tightest ten percent of the markets we track, which means the citywide median carries real predictive weight and your job shifts from hunting for a wider comp net to proving whether the subject is a typical Forest Grove property or an exception. Where a market is this compressed, small adjustments matter more than large ones, so document the handful of differences you do apply rather than reaching for a range you cannot defend.

From market read to offer price

A tight market makes the next step easier: the citywide anchor sits close to most homes, and a report only has to explain the gap. 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 12,508+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Forest Grove 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:

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Forest Grove, OR
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 305
Median sold price: $510,000
Median sold $/sqft: $261 (305 qualifying)
Property mix: 91% houses
https://resideline.com/blog/forest-grove-or-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 Forest Grove over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Forest Grove?

The median sold price in Forest Grove over the last 6 months is $510,000, measured across 305 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Forest Grove last month?

Resideline tracked 38 closed sales in Forest Grove in July 2026, out of 305 closings tracked over the last six months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.

What is the typical sale price range in Forest Grove?

The middle half of Forest Grove sales over the last six months closed between $447,000 and $575,000, with a median of $510,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Forest Grove?

Among qualifying Forest Grove closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $261, measured across 305 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

What does a narrow quartile band mean for pricing a Forest Grove home?

It means the median does more work here than it does in most markets we track. With the middle half of Forest Grove closings falling between $447,000 and $575,000, a value near $510,000 is defensible for a typical property, and the burden shifts to identifying what makes your subject atypical. Price outside that middle range only when you can point to concrete, comp-supported differences.

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