Mason City, IA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Mason City produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 279
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $160,033
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $116
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $110,000 and $261,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 279 closed sales in Mason City over the last six months, with a median closing price of $160,033. 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 $110,000 and $261,000. 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 Mason City 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 276 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $88 and $139 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Mason City, IA (September 2026)

The median home price in Mason City is $160,033, measured across the 279 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $110,000 and $261,000.

Where Mason City sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Mason City 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 $110,000 and $261,000. Among the 24 Iowa markets with a published band, Mason City's middle-half spread ($110,000 to $261,000) ranks 23rd 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 89th 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 54 days, across 121 Mason City closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 10 days, across 107 Mason City closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Mason City angle

Mason City pairs a modest price level with real dispersion: a median closed sale price of $160,033 across 279 tracked closings over the last six months, and a middle half running from $110,000 to $261,000, wider than most spreads we track. The width is not evenly split, either; the upper stretch of the band runs considerably further from the median than the lower stretch does. At this price level a given dollar adjustment moves an estimate across a large share of the band, which rewards precision. Value Mason City properties from closely matched closed sales, keep the median as context, and be most skeptical of numbers that land high in the band without comps that specifically earn them.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. 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 Mason City 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: Mason City, IA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1950160
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 279
Median sold price: $160,033
Median sold $/sqft: $116 (276 qualifying)
Property mix: 90% houses
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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 Mason City over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Mason City 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 23% of the 279 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $165,000.