Saint Simons Island, GA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Saint Simons Island 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: 395
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $680,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $342
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $467,000 and $1,150,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 395 closed sales in Saint Simons Island over the last six months, with a median closing price of $680,000. 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 $467,000 and $1,150,000. 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 390 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $283 and $488 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Saint Simons Island, GA (September 2026)

The median home price in Saint Simons Island is $680,000, measured across the 395 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $467,000 and $1,150,000.

Where Saint Simons Island sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Saint Simons Island 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 $467,000 and $1,150,000. Among the 90 Georgia markets with a published band, Saint Simons Island's middle-half spread ($467,000 to $1,150,000) ranks 84th 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 91st 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 41 days, across 283 Saint Simons Island closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 30 days, across 271 Saint Simons Island closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Saint Simons Island angle

Saint Simons Island is a market where the citywide median should never carry a valuation on its own. Across 395 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $680,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $467,000 and $1,150,000, a spread that ranks among the widest we track, in the top 10%. Far more of that range sits above the median than below it, so any subject you believe is above average needs comps drawn from the upper part of the distribution, not a percentage tacked onto the middle figure. Do that rather than averaging the island.

Saint Simons Island market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Saint Simons Island ZIP codes: 31522.

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, so it cannot be revised once the sale price is known. Grading it depends on a confirmed closing price reaching us, which happens for only a small share of Georgia homes, so the accuracy scoreboard is a national record rather than a Georgia one. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Saint Simons Island 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: Saint Simons Island, GA
Geography: postal-city market, no municipal boundary
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 395
Median sold price: $680,000
Median sold $/sqft: $342 (390 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 Saint Simons Island over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. Saint Simons Island has no municipal boundary of its own in the Census place and county subdivision files, so these figures cover the Saint Simons Island postal area rather than a city boundary. The closings we track across properties assigned to the Saint Simons Island postal market are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 14% of the 395 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $685,000.