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August 21, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Fort Myers Beach, FL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Fort Myers Beach: a median closing price of $545,000 across 223 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread and a ZIP-level breakdown.

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Fort Myers Beach, FL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Fort Myers Beach, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Fort Myers Beach 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: 223
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $545,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $459
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $390,000 and $825,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 223 closed sales in Fort Myers Beach over the last six months, with a median closing price of $545,000. 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 $390,000 and $825,000. 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 220 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $371 and $628 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Fort Myers Beach, FL (September 2026)

The median home price in Fort Myers Beach is $545,000, measured across the 223 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $390,000 and $825,000.

Where Fort Myers Beach sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Fort Myers Beach
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $390k to $825k
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$280k to $520k: 89 sales89sales$280k$520k to $759k: 55 sales$759k to $999k: 25 sales$759k$999k to $1.24M: 19 sales$1.24M to $1.48M: 4 sales$1.24MMedian $545k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Fort Myers Beach 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 $390,000 and $825,000. Among the 194 Florida markets with a published band, Fort Myers Beach's middle-half spread ($390,000 to $825,000) ranks 112th 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 82nd 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
Fort Myers Beach 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: $450 per square foot across 56 sales$450AprMay 2026: $422 per square foot across 48 sales$422MayJun 2026: $404 per square foot across 35 sales$404JunJul 2026: $455 per square foot across 31 sales$455JulAug 2026: $542 per square foot across 24 sales$542Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 81 days, across 153 Fort Myers Beach closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 33 days, across 145 Fort Myers Beach 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 223 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Fort Myers Beach angle

Fort Myers Beach spreads its closings across a band wider than most markets we track, which is a plain signal that no single figure describes the city. $545,000 is the middle closing, not the average and not the typical home. With $390,000 and $825,000 far apart, the middle half of sales covers a long stretch of prices, and the other half sits outside that stretch on both sides. An address quoted at the citywide median is being described by a number that may belong to a very different property. Depth helps. Do that filtering before you look at any citywide figure. The upper half of the band is the wider stretch, so a comp set that drifts toward the larger or better finished end of the market will carry an estimate up quickly.

Fort Myers Beach market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Fort Myers Beach ZIP codes: 33931.

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 Fort Myers Beach 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: Fort Myers Beach, FL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1224150
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 223
Median sold price: $545,000
Median sold $/sqft: $459 (220 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 Fort Myers Beach over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Fort Myers Beach 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 13% of the 223 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $547,500.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Fort Myers Beach?

The median sold price in Fort Myers Beach over the last 6 months is $545,000, measured across 223 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Fort Myers Beach last month?

Resideline tracked 24 closed sales in Fort Myers Beach in August 2026, out of 223 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 Fort Myers Beach?

The middle half of Fort Myers Beach sales over the last six months closed between $390,000 and $825,000, with a median of $545,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Fort Myers Beach?

Among qualifying Fort Myers Beach closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $459, measured across 220 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Why does the citywide median describe so few homes in Fort Myers Beach?

Because the spread is wide. The middle half of closings runs from $390,000 to $825,000, a long distance in this market, and half of all sales fall outside that range altogether. $545,000 marks the midpoint of the list, so it describes the middle sale rather than a typical property. It is a fair way to compare this city with another city, and a weak way to price one address. For a specific home, sales matched on type, size and condition will beat the citywide figure every time.

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