Middleton, WI Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Middleton, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Middleton 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: 211
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $552,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $266
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $422,000 and $715,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 211 closed sales in Middleton over the last six months, with a median closing price of $552,000. 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 $422,000 and $715,000. 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 198 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $237 and $306 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Middleton, WI (October 2026)

The median home price in Middleton is $552,000, measured across the 211 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $422,000 and $715,000.

Where Middleton sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Middleton 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 $422,000 and $715,000. Among the 38 Wisconsin markets with a published band, Middleton's middle-half spread ($422,000 to $715,000) 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 52nd 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 24 days, across 82 Middleton closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 26 days, across 73 Middleton closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Middleton angle

Across 211 tracked closings in Middleton over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $552,000 and the middle half of sales landed between $422,000 and $715,000. The spread is close to typical for the markets we track: real variation on both sides of the median, but not the kind of range that makes the citywide figure meaningless. Price a Middleton property from matched closings, and read the median as the market's center of gravity rather than as any property's value.

Middleton market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Middleton ZIP codes: 53562.

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 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 Middleton 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: Middleton, WI
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5551575
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 211
Median sold price: $552,000
Median sold $/sqft: $266 (198 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 Middleton over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.