Melissa, TX Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

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

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 194
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $450,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $186
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $389,500 and $550,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 194 closed sales in Melissa over the last six months, with a median closing price of $450,000. 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 $389,500 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. 95% of the Melissa 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 194 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $170 and $199 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Melissa, TX (August 2026)

The median home price in Melissa is $450,000, measured across the 194 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $389,500 and $550,000.

Where Melissa sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Melissa over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $389,500 and $550,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 47 days, across 167 Melissa closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 21 days, across 164 Melissa closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Melissa angle

Melissa is a case where the citywide number is worth something. A range that narrow means the median genuinely constrains what an ordinary property should do, and the useful question becomes whether your subject is ordinary. That matters here because the comp set is also among the thinnest we track, so you will not be able to filter your way to a large matched sample. Lean on the tight distribution, check the few close comps you can find, and be skeptical of any answer that lands far outside the middle half.

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. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 11,465+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Melissa address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Melissa, TX
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 194
Median sold price: $450,000
Median sold $/sqft: $186 (194 qualifying)
Property mix: 95% houses
https://resideline.com/blog/melissa-tx-housing-market

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 Melissa over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.