Mount Washington, KY Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Mount Washington, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Mount Washington 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: 217
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $305,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $195
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $259,000 and $390,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 217 closed sales in Mount Washington over the last six months, with a median closing price of $305,000. 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 $259,000 and $390,000. 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. 96% of the Mount Washington 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 207 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $162 and $219 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Mount Washington, KY (September 2026)

The median home price in Mount Washington is $305,000, measured across the 217 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $259,000 and $390,000.

Where Mount Washington sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Mount Washington 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 $259,000 and $390,000. Among the 25 Kentucky markets with a published band, Mount Washington's middle-half spread ($259,000 to $390,000) ranks 4th 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 25th 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 24 days, across 147 Mount Washington closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 141 Mount Washington closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Mount Washington angle

Over the last six months Resideline tracked 217 closings in Mount Washington, with a median closed sale price of $305,000 and the middle half of sales between $259,000 and $390,000. The overall width of that band is close to typical for the markets we track, but its shape is not symmetric: there is more room above the median than below it, and the upper quartile sits markedly further from $305,000 than the lower quartile does. In practice that means pricing an above-average Mount Washington property involves bigger dollar steps than discounting a below-average one, and comps for the upper end deserve particular care. The lower end is more compressed, so mistakes there tend to be smaller.

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 Mount Washington 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: Mount Washington, KY
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2154228
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 217
Median sold price: $305,000
Median sold $/sqft: $195 (207 qualifying)
Property mix: 96% 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 Mount Washington over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Mount Washington 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 12% of the 217 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $314,900.