Hobbs, NM Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Hobbs: a median closing price of $269,900 across 167 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
If you invest in or around Hobbs, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Hobbs 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: 167
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $269,900
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $151
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $182,000 and $345,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 167 closed sales in Hobbs over the last six months, with a median closing price of $269,900. 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 $182,000 and $345,000. 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. 92% of the Hobbs 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 164 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $133 and $178 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Hobbs, NM (September 2026)
The median home price in Hobbs is $269,900, measured across the 167 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $182,000 and $345,000.
Where Hobbs sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Hobbs 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 $182,000 and $345,000. Among the 9 New Mexico markets with a published band, Hobbs's middle-half spread ($182,000 to $345,000) ranks 8th 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 6 days, across 140 Hobbs closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 36 days, across 146 Hobbs closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Hobbs angle
Hobbs recorded 167 tracked closings over the last six months, with a median closed sale price of $269,900 and the middle half of sales between $182,000 and $345,000. That combination makes the citywide midpoint a poor stand-in for specific addresses, especially below the median, where tracked sales spread across a long run of prices. Value a Hobbs property from closed sales in its own part of the range, check the result against the band, and treat any estimate that leans on $269,900 alone as unfinished work.
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, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in New Mexico: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of New Mexico homes, and most New Mexico estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a New Mexico one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.
Run any Hobbs address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.
Cite this
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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Hobbs, NM
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3532520
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 167
Median sold price: $269,900
Median sold $/sqft: $151 (164 qualifying)
Property mix: 92% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Hobbs over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Hobbs?
The median sold price in Hobbs over the last 6 months is $269,900, measured across 167 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Hobbs last month?
Resideline tracked 22 closed sales in Hobbs in August 2026, out of 167 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 Hobbs?
The middle half of Hobbs sales over the last six months closed between $182,000 and $345,000, with a median of $269,900.
What is the typical price per square foot in Hobbs?
Among qualifying Hobbs closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $151, measured across 164 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
How should an investor read the wide price spread in Hobbs?
As a warning against averages. Half of tracked closings landed between $182,000 and $345,000, a wider stretch than most markets we track, and the band extends much further below the median of $269,900 than above it. Deals in the lower part of the range need comps from that same territory, because the midpoint sits well above what many ordinary lower-band Hobbs sales actually closed for.