Rochester, MN Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Rochester, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Rochester 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: 1,107
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $350,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $171
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $269,900 and $479,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 1,107 closed sales in Rochester over the last six months, with a median closing price of $350,000. 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 $269,900 and $479,900. 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 1,100 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $145 and $202 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Rochester, MN (September 2026)

The median home price in Rochester is $350,000, measured across the 1,107 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $269,900 and $479,900.

Where Rochester sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Rochester 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 $269,900 and $479,900. Among the 55 Minnesota markets with a published band, Rochester's middle-half spread ($269,900 to $479,900) ranks 36th 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 61st 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 14 days, across 890 Rochester closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 34 days, across 876 Rochester closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Rochester angle

The median closed sale price in Rochester, Minnesota was $350,000 across 1,107 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, with the middle half of sales between $269,900 and $479,900. The width of that band is close to typical for the markets we track, but it is distinctly lopsided: the run from the median up to the upper quartile is considerably longer than the run down to the lower quartile. In practice, ordinary properties above the midpoint spread out far more than ordinary ones below it, so an upper-half subject needs its own comps rather than a premium applied to the citywide median.

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 Rochester 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: Rochester, MN
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2754880
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 1,107
Median sold price: $350,000
Median sold $/sqft: $171 (1,100 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 Rochester over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.