Southbury, CT Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Southbury 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: 291
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $381,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $235
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $260,000 and $610,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 291 closed sales in Southbury over the last six months, with a median closing price of $381,900. 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 $260,000 and $610,000. 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 290 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $198 and $284 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Southbury, CT (September 2026)

The median home price in Southbury is $381,900, measured across the 291 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $260,000 and $610,000.

Where Southbury sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Southbury 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 $260,000 and $610,000. Among the 52 Connecticut markets with a published band, Southbury's middle-half spread ($260,000 to $610,000) ranks 47th 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 88th 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 42 days, across 172 Southbury closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 176 Southbury closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Southbury angle

The distance between $260,000 and $610,000 in Southbury is wider than in most markets we track. That fact alone should change how you read $381,900: it is the midpoint of a broad set of closings, not a reliable stand in for any particular house, and applying it to a specific address will often miss by a wide margin. 291 closings gives you a solid base to work from, which is the good news. The upper half of the band, from $381,900 to $610,000, covers more ground than the lower half. So a comp set that fails to match the subject on size or finish will tend to land under value. Note too that $260,000 to $610,000 contains half of all closings, so the ends of the distribution reach well past both figures.

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 Southbury 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: Southbury, CT
Geography: town (minor civil division), Census county subdivision 0914069640
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 291
Median sold price: $381,900
Median sold $/sqft: $235 (290 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 Southbury over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.