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

In a market the size of Howell, individual sales move the needle. The figures below rest on 130 tracked closings over the last 12 months, so read them as the direction of the market rather than a precise price for any one street.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 130
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $330,000 (low-volume sample)
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $192
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $265,000 and $379,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 130 closed sales in Howell over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $330,000. 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 $265,000 and $379,900. 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. Across the 130 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $145 and $227 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Howell, MI (October 2026)

The median home price in Howell is $330,000, measured across the 130 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $265,000 and $379,900.

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 $265,000 and $379,900. Among the 79 Michigan markets with a published band, Howell's middle-half spread ($265,000 to $379,900) ranks 10th 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 15th 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 10 days, across 97 Howell closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 88 Howell 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 130 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

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 130 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median closed sale price was $330,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $265,000 and $379,900. That combination makes $330,000 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 thin market punishes generic pricing; the way to firm up a number here is the specific property and its handful of true comps. 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.

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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: 130
Median sold price: $330,000
Median sold $/sqft: $192 (130 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. This is a low-volume sample: treat the statistics as directional rather than precise estimates of the entire local market.

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 15% of the 130 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $345,000. This is a low-volume market: the figures below rest on 130 closings within the Howell city limits, so treat the median as indicative rather than precise.