Omaha, NE Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Omaha, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Omaha 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: 2,819
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $284,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $160
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $220,000 and $375,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 2,819 closed sales in Omaha over the last six months, with a median closing price of $284,000. 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 $220,000 and $375,000. 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. The large tracked sample provides substantial market-level evidence. 91% of the Omaha 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 2,810 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $135 and $186 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Omaha, NE (October 2026)

The median home price in Omaha is $284,000, measured across the 2,819 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $220,000 and $375,000.

Where Omaha sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Omaha 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 $220,000 and $375,000. Among the 9 Nebraska markets with a published band, Omaha's middle-half spread ($220,000 to $375,000) ranks 7th from the narrowest. 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 7 days, across 2,161 Omaha closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 2,225 Omaha closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Omaha angle

Across 2,819 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $284,000, with the middle half of sales closing between $220,000 and $375,000. A band that contained means the median carries genuine weight, so the useful question is whether your subject looks like a typical Omaha closing rather than what the market as a whole is doing. There is somewhat more room above the median than below, so lean on matched comps for higher-tier subjects, and use the depth of the sample to verify typicality instead of hunting for matches.

Omaha market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Omaha ZIP codes: 68136 · 68135 · 68104 · 68111.

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

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Omaha, NE
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3137000
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 2,819
Median sold price: $284,000
Median sold $/sqft: $160 (2,810 qualifying)
Property mix: 91% 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 Omaha over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.