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August 27, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Frankfort, KY Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Frankfort: a median closing price of $240,000 across 176 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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Frankfort, KY Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Frankfort, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Frankfort sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 6 months: 176
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $240,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $142
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $165,000 and $295,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 176 closed sales in Frankfort over the last six months, with a median closing price of $240,000. 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 $165,000 and $295,000. 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. 84% of the Frankfort 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 155 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $117 and $176 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Frankfort, KY (September 2026)

The median home price in Frankfort is $240,000, measured across the 176 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $165,000 and $295,000.

Where Frankfort sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Frankfort
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $165k to $295k
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$70k to $134k: 25 sales$70k$134k to $198k: 28 sales$198k to $262k: 46 sales46sales$198k$262k to $326k: 42 sales$326k to $390k: 18 sales$326kMedian $240k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Frankfort 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 $165,000 and $295,000. Among the 25 Kentucky markets with a published band, Frankfort's middle-half spread ($165,000 to $295,000) ranks 17th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 62nd percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
Frankfort monthly medians for the complete months inside the last six months, Apr 2026 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 5 months plotted.
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Apr 2026: $155 per square foot across 28 sales$155AprMay 2026: $124 per square foot across 34 sales$124MayJun 2026: $140 per square foot across 32 sales$140JunJul 2026: $143 per square foot across 30 sales$143JulAug 2026: $160 per square foot across 19 sales$160Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 22 days, across 113 Frankfort closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 34 days, across 98 Frankfort 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 176 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Frankfort angle

Frankfort gave us 176 tracked closings over the last six months, at a median closed sale price of $240,000 with the middle half of sales between $165,000 and $295,000. The overall spread is close to typical for the markets we track. What stands out is the shape: the lower stretch of the band runs much further from the median than the upper stretch does, so downside cases separate from the midpoint in bigger increments than upside cases. Practically, a below-average Frankfort subject needs its discount argued carefully from matched closed sales, while an above-average one has less headroom before its estimate leaves the middle half entirely and starts relying on the top quarter of the market for evidence.

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 Frankfort 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: Frankfort, KY
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2128900
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 176
Median sold price: $240,000
Median sold $/sqft: $142 (155 qualifying)
Property mix: 84% 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 Frankfort over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Frankfort 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 16% of the 176 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $250,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Frankfort?

The median sold price in Frankfort over the last 6 months is $240,000, measured across 176 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Frankfort last month?

Resideline tracked 23 closed sales in Frankfort in August 2026, out of 176 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 Frankfort?

The middle half of Frankfort sales over the last six months closed between $165,000 and $295,000, with a median of $240,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Frankfort?

Among qualifying Frankfort closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $142, measured across 155 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Why is the gap between the lower quartile and the median so large in Frankfort?

The numbers themselves are the answer we can stand behind: the middle half of tracked closings ran from $165,000 to $295,000 with the median at $240,000, so the band simply extends further below the midpoint than above it. Our closed-sale data does not record why individual homes sold where they did, so we will not invent a cause. For pricing, it means the lower side of the Frankfort market covers a lot of ground, and matched comps matter most below the median.

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