Fort Washington, MD Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

Fort Washington closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last 12 months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 294
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $499,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $215
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $420,000 and $605,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 294 closed sales in Fort Washington over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $499,900. 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 $420,000 and $605,000. 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. 98% of the Fort Washington 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 293 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $181 and $262 per square foot.

Figures last updated November 4, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Fort Washington, MD (October 2026)

The median home price in Fort Washington is $499,900, measured across the 294 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $420,000 and $605,000.

Where Fort Washington sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Fort Washington over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $420,000 and $605,000. Among the 40 Maryland markets with a published band, Fort Washington's middle-half spread ($420,000 to $605,000) ranks 9th 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 16th percentile of the 2,291 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of November 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 25 days, across 150 Fort Washington closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 26 days, across 127 Fort Washington closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 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 294 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Fort Washington angle

A narrow band is a forgiving condition for a citywide figure, and Fort Washington has one: the distance from $420,000 to $605,000 is tighter than most markets we track. That makes $499,900 a more usable starting point than it would be elsewhere. Closings sit closer together, so the penalty for anchoring on the citywide number before you have comps is smaller. It is still a starting point rather than an answer, because a tighter band compresses differences without erasing them, and half of all sales still land outside the $420,000 to $605,000 range. The band is not symmetric around $499,900: the stretch up to $605,000 is longer than the stretch down to $420,000. The upper half of the middle band carries the larger share of its width. With 294 closings behind the figure, a solid sample, you have enough to check that directly.

Fort Washington market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Fort Washington ZIP codes: 20744.

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, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR 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 Washington 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 Washington, MD
Geography: Census-designated place, not an incorporated municipality, Census place 2429525
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 294
Median sold price: $499,900
Median sold $/sqft: $215 (293 qualifying)
Property mix: 98% 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 Fort Washington over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track across the Fort Washington Census-designated area 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 21% of the 294 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $510,000.