St. Louis, MO Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

St. Louis 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: 2,082
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $244,900
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $164
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $155,000 and $350,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 2,082 closed sales in St. Louis over the last six months, with a median closing price of $244,900. 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 $155,000 and $350,000. 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 2,073 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $114 and $208 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in St. Louis, MO (August 2026)

The median home price in St. Louis is $244,900, measured across the 2,082 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $155,000 and $350,000.

Where St. Louis sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in St. Louis over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $155,000 and $350,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 11 days, across 1,643 St. Louis closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 29 days, across 1,448 St. Louis closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The St. Louis angle

St. Louis combines a very wide closed-sale band with one of the deepest tracked comp sets we have. Because the sample sits among the deepest we track, you can afford to stack filters aggressively, matching on size, bed count and property type before you look at a single number.

What is being reported about the St. Louis market

The numbers above are what we measure from tracked closings. Alongside them, here is what local and national coverage is reporting, from the source:

• •Redfin News reported that in July 2026 the St. Louis metro's median sale price was $309,702, up 5.0% year over year, with new listings up 17.8% year over year, the largest increase among the major metros Redfin tracked, pending sales up 0.8%, and homes sold roughly flat at -0.4% (Redfin News, Aug 12, 2026)
• •First Alert 4 reported that greater St. Louis home inventory rose 10.5 percent from a year earlier while the median price climbed 4.5 percent to $350,000, and the local Realtors association said the market remains competitive for buyers (First Alert 4 (KMOV St. Louis), Jul 20, 2026)

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. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,516+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any St. Louis address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: St. Louis, MO
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 2,082
Median sold price: $244,900
Median sold $/sqft: $164 (2,073 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/st-louis-housing-market-2026

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 St. Louis over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.