Lowell, MA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Lowell: a median closing price of $500,000 across 417 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
If you invest in or around Lowell, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Lowell 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: 417
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $500,000
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $316
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $350,000 and $630,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 417 closed sales in Lowell over the last six months, with a median closing price of $500,000. 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 $350,000 and $630,000. 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 415 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $261 and $361 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Lowell, MA (September 2026)
The median home price in Lowell is $500,000, measured across the 417 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $350,000 and $630,000.
Where Lowell sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Lowell 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 $350,000 and $630,000. Among the 40 Massachusetts markets with a published band, Lowell's middle-half spread ($350,000 to $630,000) ranks 29th 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 63rd 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 21 days, across 208 Lowell closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 183 Lowell closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Lowell angle
Lowell produced 417 tracked closings over the last six months, with a median closed sale price of $500,000 and a middle half spanning $350,000 to $630,000. The width of that band is close to typical for the markets we track: the median is informative, and it is still only a midpoint. Slightly more of the band sits below the median than above it, so the step down to $350,000 covers more dollars than the step up to $630,000.
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 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 Lowell 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: Lowell, MA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2537000
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 417
Median sold price: $500,000
Median sold $/sqft: $316 (415 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 Lowell over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Lowell?
The median sold price in Lowell over the last 6 months is $500,000, measured across 417 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Lowell last month?
Resideline tracked 52 closed sales in Lowell in August 2026, out of 417 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 Lowell?
The middle half of Lowell sales over the last six months closed between $350,000 and $630,000, with a median of $500,000.
What is the typical price per square foot in Lowell?
Among qualifying Lowell closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $316, measured across 415 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
How dependable is the Lowell median as a pricing anchor?
It is dependable as a description of the market's center and undependable as a value for a specific address. Anchor on matched closed sales and use the median to sanity check the result, not to generate it.