Howell, MI Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Howell, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Howell sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 150
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $328,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $190
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $250,000 and $375,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 150 closed sales in Howell over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $328,000. 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 $250,000 and $375,000. 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 149 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $148 and $221 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Howell, MI (October 2026)

The median home price in Howell is $328,000, measured across the 150 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $250,000 and $375,000.

Where Howell sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Howell 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 $250,000 and $375,000. Among the 78 Michigan markets with a published band, Howell's middle-half spread ($250,000 to $375,000) ranks 13th 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 23rd percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 12 days, across 113 Howell closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 23 days, across 102 Howell closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Howell angle

Howell's closings cluster more tightly than most markets we track, and they sit fairly evenly on either side of the midpoint. Across 150 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median closed sale price was $328,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $250,000 and $375,000. That combination makes $328,000 a usable first estimate rather than a decoration, and it means a comp landing well outside the band should be inspected before it is trusted. The real question becomes typicality: identify the specific attributes that would push your subject out of the cluster and screen on those.

Howell market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Howell ZIP codes: 48843.

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, 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 Howell 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: Howell, MI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2639540
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 150
Median sold price: $328,000
Median sold $/sqft: $190 (149 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 Howell over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Howell 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 150 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $334,500.