Sylvania, OH Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Sylvania: a median closing price of $271,000 across 198 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
If you invest in or around Sylvania, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Sylvania 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: 198
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $271,000
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $158
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $182,000 and $355,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 198 closed sales in Sylvania over the last six months, with a median closing price of $271,000. 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 $182,000 and $355,000. 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 198 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $132 and $175 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Sylvania, OH (September 2026)
The median home price in Sylvania is $271,000, measured across the 198 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $182,000 and $355,000.
Where Sylvania sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Sylvania 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 $182,000 and $355,000. Among the 106 Ohio markets with a published band, Sylvania's middle-half spread ($182,000 to $355,000) ranks 71st 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 75th 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 25 days, across 94 Sylvania closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 9 days, across 88 Sylvania closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Sylvania angle
Sylvania's band deserves attention before its median does. Across 198 tracked closings over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $271,000, with the middle half of sales spanning $182,000 to $355,000, a spread wider than most markets we track. Pricing in Sylvania therefore depends heavily on locating the subject within the band first, then holding comps to that location rather than to the citywide midpoint.
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 Sylvania 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: Sylvania, OH
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 3976022
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 198
Median sold price: $271,000
Median sold $/sqft: $158 (198 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 Sylvania over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Sylvania city limits 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 26% of the 198 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $285,250.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Sylvania?
The median sold price in Sylvania over the last 6 months is $271,000, measured across 198 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Sylvania last month?
Resideline tracked 36 closed sales in Sylvania in August 2026, out of 198 closings tracked over the last six months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.
What is the typical sale price range in Sylvania?
The middle half of Sylvania sales over the last six months closed between $182,000 and $355,000, with a median of $271,000.
What is the typical price per square foot in Sylvania?
Among qualifying Sylvania closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $158, measured across 198 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
Why is there such a large gap between $182,000 and the median in Sylvania?
We can verify the gap, not narrate its cause: half of tracked closings landed between $182,000 and $355,000, and the median of $271,000 sits near the top of that stretch, so the band's territory lies mostly below the midpoint. Our closed-sale data does not record why individual sales priced where they did. What the shape tells you is that lower-priced Sylvania sales cover a wide range, and comps for such a property should come from that range rather than from sales near the median.