Lees Summit, MO Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Lees Summit, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Lees Summit 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: 974
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $414,750
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $177
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $329,000 and $550,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 974 closed sales in Lees Summit over the last six months, with a median closing price of $414,750. 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 $329,000 and $550,000. 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. 90% of the Lees Summit 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 959 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $152 and $209 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Lees Summit, MO (September 2026)

The median home price in Lees Summit is $414,750, measured across the 974 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $329,000 and $550,000.

Where Lees Summit sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Lees Summit 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 $329,000 and $550,000. Among the 42 Missouri markets with a published band, Lees Summit's middle-half spread ($329,000 to $550,000) ranks 26th 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 49th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 10 days, across 770 Lees Summit closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 31 days, across 746 Lees Summit closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Lees Summit angle

Lees Summit offers a spread close to typical for the markets we track and a comfortable amount of data behind it. Across 974 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $414,750, and the middle half of sales closed between $329,000 and $550,000. With a band of that width the median gets you oriented and no further, so treat it as the first line of the analysis rather than the last. There is more room between the median and the upper quartile than below it, which is worth remembering before you assume a strong subject simply lands near the middle.

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 Missouri: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Missouri homes, and most Missouri estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Missouri one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Lees Summit 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: Lees Summit, MO
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2941348
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 974
Median sold price: $414,750
Median sold $/sqft: $177 (959 qualifying)
Property mix: 90% houses
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