Sun City, AZ Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

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

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 611
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $250,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $172
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $199,900 and $315,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 611 closed sales in Sun City over the last six months, with a median closing price of $250,000. 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 $199,900 and $315,000. 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 606 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $146 and $200 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Sun City, AZ (October 2026)

The median home price in Sun City is $250,000, measured across the 611 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $199,900 and $315,000.

Where Sun City sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Sun City 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 $199,900 and $315,000. Among the 50 Arizona markets with a published band, Sun City's middle-half spread ($199,900 to $315,000) ranks 18th 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 36th percentile of the 2,291 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of November 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 30 days, across 345 Sun City closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 21 days, across 269 Sun City closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 611 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Sun City angle

Sun City posted 611 tracked closings over the last six months, with a median closed sale price of $250,000 and the middle half of sales landing between $199,900 and $315,000. The width of that band is close to typical for the markets we track, which leaves the median informative but not conclusive. A sensible Sun City valuation starts at the median, moves with matched closed sales, and treats any large departure from the band as a claim requiring evidence.

Sun City market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Sun City ZIP codes: 85351 · 85373.

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, 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 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 Sun City 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: Sun City, AZ
Geography: Census-designated place, not an incorporated municipality, Census place 0470320
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 611
Median sold price: $250,000
Median sold $/sqft: $172 (606 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 Sun City over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track across the Sun City 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 10% of the 611 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $255,000.