Franklin, IN Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Franklin, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Franklin 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: 238
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $296,500
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $166
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $250,000 and $367,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 238 closed sales in Franklin over the last six months, with a median closing price of $296,500. 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 $250,000 and $367,900. 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. 96% of the Franklin 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 238 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $133 and $192 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Franklin, IN (September 2026)

The median home price in Franklin is $296,500, measured across the 238 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $250,000 and $367,900.

Where Franklin sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Franklin 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 $250,000 and $367,900. Among the 55 Indiana markets with a published band, Franklin's middle-half spread ($250,000 to $367,900) ranks 8th 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 20th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 21 days, across 199 Franklin closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 31 days, across 203 Franklin closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Franklin angle

Franklin sits in the middle of the pack on the two measures that decide how far a citywide number can be trusted: the spread from $250,000 to $367,900 is about typical for the markets we track, and 238 closings is a solid base to work from. That combination makes $296,500 a reasonable orientation point and a poor final answer. The upper half of the band, from $296,500 to $367,900, is the wider stretch, so a comp set that leans toward larger or more finished homes will drag an estimate up faster than a comp set skewed low will pull it down. Match property type, size and condition first, then look at where your address lands inside the band rather than at the band's midpoint.

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 Franklin 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: Franklin, IN
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1825450
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 238
Median sold price: $296,500
Median sold $/sqft: $166 (238 qualifying)
Property mix: 96% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Franklin over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.