Salem, MA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Salem, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Salem 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: 287
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $590,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $422
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $475,000 and $750,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 287 closed sales in Salem over the last six months, with a median closing price of $590,000. 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 $475,000 and $750,000. 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 286 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $330 and $510 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Salem, MA (October 2026)

The median home price in Salem is $590,000, measured across the 287 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $475,000 and $750,000.

Where Salem sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Salem 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 $475,000 and $750,000. Among the 41 Massachusetts markets with a published band, Salem's middle-half spread ($475,000 to $750,000) ranks 18th 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 35th percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 22 days, across 156 Salem closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 26 days, across 131 Salem closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Salem angle

Salem's 287 tracked closings over the last six months set the median closed sale price at $590,000, with the middle half of sales between $475,000 and $750,000. The spread is close to typical for the markets we track, which makes the median an honest but limited anchor. There is more distance between the median and the top of the band than between the median and the bottom, so upside estimates separate from the midpoint faster than downside ones. For a typical Salem property the median is a sound starting point; for anything you believe belongs in the upper stretch, the burden of proof rises with the number, and matched closed sales are the only evidence that carries it.

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 Salem 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: Salem, MA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2559105
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 287
Median sold price: $590,000
Median sold $/sqft: $422 (286 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 Salem over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.