Sterling, VA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Sterling, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Sterling sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 192
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $574,949
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $319
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $420,000 and $660,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 192 closed sales in Sterling over the last six months, with a median closing price of $574,949. 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 $420,000 and $660,000. 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 192 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $282 and $370 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Sterling, VA (September 2026)

The median home price in Sterling is $574,949, measured across the 192 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $420,000 and $660,000.

Where Sterling sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Sterling 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 $420,000 and $660,000. Among the 57 Virginia markets with a published band, Sterling's middle-half spread ($420,000 to $660,000) ranks 22nd from the narrowest. 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 9 days, across 98 Sterling closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 23 days, across 84 Sterling closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Sterling angle

Sterling's band shape deserves attention before its width. The median sits high inside that band: the distance from the median down to the lower quartile is many times the distance up to the upper quartile, so the upper half of the middle band is compressed into a short interval above $574,949 while the lower half stretches far beneath it. The median therefore tells you more of the story at the top of the middle half than across its span, so match comps to the subject rather than pricing from the citywide figure.

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 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 Sterling 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: Sterling, VA
Geography: Census-designated place, not an incorporated municipality, Census place 5175376
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 192
Median sold price: $574,949
Median sold $/sqft: $319 (192 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 Sterling over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track across the Sterling Census-designated area 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 23% of the 192 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $592,500.