Richmond, VA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Richmond produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 1,932
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $402,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $258
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $287,500 and $605,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 1,932 closed sales in Richmond over the last six months, with a median closing price of $402,000. 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 $287,500 and $605,000. 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. Across the 1,927 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $206 and $338 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Richmond, VA (September 2026)

The median home price in Richmond is $402,000, measured across the 1,932 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $287,500 and $605,000.

Where Richmond sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Richmond 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 $287,500 and $605,000. Among the 57 Virginia markets with a published band, Richmond's middle-half spread ($287,500 to $605,000) ranks 48th 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 82nd 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 7 days, across 1,435 Richmond closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 1,433 Richmond closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Richmond Real Estate Market Trends in 2026

Among the Richmond closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $252 per square foot (1,420 sales), condos at $319 (268 sales), townhouses at $251 (171 sales) and multi-family homes at $229 (67 sales).

The Richmond angle

Volume and spread point in opposite directions in this data. 1,932 closings makes this among the deepest samples we track, which is good news for comp selection, but the $287,500 to $605,000 band is wider than most markets we track, which means the citywide $402,000 tells you very little about any particular address. Use the depth to solve the width. Watch the direction of the spread as well. More of the band lies above $402,000 than below it, so the high end has more room to vary. A comp set that reaches upward without matching the subject will overstate the result by more than it would understate going the other way.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. 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 Richmond 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: Richmond, VA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 5167000
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 1,932
Median sold price: $402,000
Median sold $/sqft: $258 (1,927 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 Richmond over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Richmond 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 18% of the 1,932 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $424,000.