Southaven, MS Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Southaven closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last six months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 381
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $285,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $154
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $230,000 and $345,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 381 closed sales in Southaven over the last six months, with a median closing price of $285,000. 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 $230,000 and $345,000. 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. 97% of the Southaven 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 378 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $138 and $171 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Southaven, MS (October 2026)

The median home price in Southaven is $285,000, measured across the 381 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $230,000 and $345,000.

Where Southaven sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Southaven 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 $230,000 and $345,000. Among the 15 Mississippi markets with a published band, Southaven's middle-half spread ($230,000 to $345,000) ranks 3rd 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 23rd 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 19 days, across 292 Southaven closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 31 days, across 295 Southaven closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Southaven angle

Southaven behaves like a market where the median means something. Resideline tracked 381 closings over the last six months, producing a median closed sale price of $285,000 and a middle half running from $230,000 to $345,000, tighter than most markets we track and sitting fairly evenly on both sides of the median. Practically, your first estimate can start near the median, and the work shifts to confirming the subject is typical rather than hunting for the right neighborhood of value.

Southaven market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Southaven ZIP codes: 38671 · 38672.

From market read to offer price

A tight market makes the next step easier: the citywide anchor sits close to most homes, and a report only has to explain the gap. 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, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it is a different matter in Mississippi: because sale prices are not public record here, a confirmed closing price reaches us for only a small share of Mississippi homes, and most Mississippi estimates stay frozen and ungraded. The accuracy scoreboard is therefore a national record rather than a Mississippi one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Southaven 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: Southaven, MS
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 2869280
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 381
Median sold price: $285,000
Median sold $/sqft: $154 (378 qualifying)
Property mix: 97% 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 Southaven over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.