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August 21, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Middletown, NY Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

What homes actually sell for in Middletown: a median closing price of $347,475 across 262 closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, plus the full price spread.

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Middletown, NY Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Middletown, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Middletown sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 12 months: 262
  • Median sold price, last 12 months: $347,475
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $226
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $268,745 and $425,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 262 closed sales in Middletown over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $347,475. 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 $268,745 and $425,000. 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 256 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $182 and $263 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Middletown, NY (September 2026)

The median home price in Middletown is $347,475, measured across the 262 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $268,745 and $425,000.

Where Middletown sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Middletown
Closed sale prices over the last 12 months. Middle half of sales: $269k to $425k
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$155k to $209k: 14 sales$155k$209k to $264k: 31 sales$264k to $318k: 49 sales49sales$264k$318k to $373k: 45 sales$373k to $427k: 43 sales$373k$427k to $481k: 31 sales$481k to $536k: 15 sales$481k$536k to $590k: 5 salesMedian $347k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Middletown over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $268,745 and $425,000. Among the 45 New York markets with a published band, Middletown's middle-half spread ($268,745 to $425,000) ranks 15th 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 36th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
Middletown monthly medians for the complete months inside the last 12 months, Oct 2025 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 11 months plotted.
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Oct 2025: $226 per square foot across 23 sales$226OctNov 2025: $240 per square foot across 18 sales$240Dec 2025: $231 per square foot across 23 sales$231DecJan 2026: $196 per square foot across 25 sales$196Feb 2026: $225 per square foot across 20 sales$225FebMar 2026: $206 per square foot across 24 sales$206Apr 2026: $216 per square foot across 33 sales$216AprMay 2026: $215 per square foot across 10 sales$215Jun 2026: $206 per square foot across 19 sales$206JunJul 2026: $223 per square foot across 17 sales$223Aug 2026: $273 per square foot across 15 sales$273Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 38 days, across 180 Middletown closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 60 days, across 175 Middletown closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 262 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Middletown angle

Middletown, New York offers a workable base for address level pricing: a solid sample and a middle range that is about typical for the markets we track. Neither the volume nor the spread forces a compromise, so a filtered comp search is the natural approach and the citywide midpoint stays where it belongs, as context. The band leans upward in shape. The band is close to even around $347,475: the ground down to $268,745 and the ground up to $425,000 are about the same. A comp set that drifts low misprices about as much as one that drifts high, so spend your effort on matching rather than on placement. Match on type and size first, then look at the split.

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 Middletown 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: Middletown, NY
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3647042
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 262
Median sold price: $347,475
Median sold $/sqft: $226 (256 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 Middletown over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Middletown 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 20% of the 262 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $366,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Middletown?

The median sold price in Middletown over the last 12 months is $347,475, measured across 262 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Middletown last month?

Resideline tracked 15 closed sales in Middletown in August 2026, out of 262 closings tracked over the last 12 months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.

What is the typical sale price range in Middletown?

The middle half of Middletown sales over the last 12 months closed between $268,745 and $425,000, with a median of $347,475.

What is the typical price per square foot in Middletown?

Among qualifying Middletown closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, the median sold price per square foot was $226, measured across 256 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

Does the quartile range cover every home sold in a city?

No. The range from $268,745 to $425,000 covers the middle half of closed sales, so a substantial share of homes close above it and below it. Treating the band as a boundary overstates what it describes. Read it instead as the central span of the market, useful for judging whether an estimate is plausible. A property that sits outside the band is not unusual, it simply needs a reason drawn from its size, type, lot or condition.

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