Lewiston, ME Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

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

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 227
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $321,300
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $185
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $265,000 and $417,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 227 closed sales in Lewiston over the last six months, with a median closing price of $321,300. 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 $417,000. 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 227 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $135 and $238 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Lewiston, ME (October 2026)

The median home price in Lewiston is $321,300, measured across the 227 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $265,000 and $417,000.

Where Lewiston sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Lewiston 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 $265,000 and $417,000. Among the 8 Maine markets with a published band, Lewiston's middle-half spread ($265,000 to $417,000) ranks 2nd 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 35th 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 19 days, across 134 Lewiston closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 132 Lewiston closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Lewiston angle

Lewiston shows 227 tracked closings over the last six months, a median closed sale price of $321,300, and a middle half between $265,000 and $417,000. Both the spread and the closing volume are close to typical for the markets we track, which is worth stating plainly: this page describes the market well and describes your property not at all. The upper side of the band runs further from the median than the lower side does, so the top of the middle is the part that will surprise you if you extrapolate from the center. Decide which one or two attributes actually drive value for the subject, price from closings that share them, and use the median only to sanity check the answer.

Lewiston market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Lewiston ZIP codes: 04240.

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, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in Maine: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Maine homes, and most Maine estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Maine one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Lewiston 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: Lewiston, ME
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2338740
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 227
Median sold price: $321,300
Median sold $/sqft: $185 (227 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 Lewiston over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.