Fountain Inn, SC Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Fountain Inn 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: 280
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $310,250
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $155
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $279,999 and $370,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 280 closed sales in Fountain Inn over the last six months, with a median closing price of $310,250. 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 $279,999 and $370,900. 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. 88% of the Fountain Inn 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 276 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $141 and $180 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Fountain Inn, SC (September 2026)

The median home price in Fountain Inn is $310,250, measured across the 280 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $279,999 and $370,900.

Where Fountain Inn sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Fountain Inn over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $279,999 and $370,900. Among the 52 South Carolina markets with a published band, Fountain Inn's middle-half spread ($279,999 to $370,900) ranks 3rd from the narrowest. 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 28 days, across 90 Fountain Inn closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 37 days, across 81 Fountain Inn closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Fountain Inn angle

Both facts point the same way. Compression makes $310,250 a more usable starting figure than it is elsewhere, and depth means you can still assemble a strictly matched set on property type, size and condition to test it. Where the citywide middle and a matched set agree, the estimate rests on real support. The band widens above the middle, so the record thins above the middle. For a property at the higher end, the clustering that helps elsewhere in the range helps less, and close matching on size and condition should take more of the weight. A large gap between the matched set and $310,250 is worth chasing down here, not smoothing over.

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. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Fountain Inn 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: Fountain Inn, SC
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4527070
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 280
Median sold price: $310,250
Median sold $/sqft: $155 (276 qualifying)
Property mix: 88% houses
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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 Fountain Inn over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.