The Dalles, OR Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around The Dalles, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what The Dalles 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: 190
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $389,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $244
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $348,000 and $507,500

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 190 closed sales in The Dalles over the last six months, with a median closing price of $389,000. 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 $348,000 and $507,500. 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. 86% of The Dalles closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 190 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $180 and $295 per square foot.

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

Median home price in The Dalles, OR (September 2026)

The median home price in The Dalles is $389,000, measured across the 190 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $348,000 and $507,500.

Where The Dalles sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in The Dalles 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 $348,000 and $507,500. Among the 32 Oregon markets with a published band, The Dalles's middle-half spread ($348,000 to $507,500) ranks 13th 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 14 days, across 146 The Dalles closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 34 days, across 159 The Dalles closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Dalles angle

The Dalles offers a compact price band on a workable record. A narrow band means $389,000 is a more usable starting point than a citywide midpoint often is. It also means outliers are more informative: a valuation landing well outside $348,000 to $507,500 should be traceable to a specific characteristic of the property rather than accepted as is. Build the estimate from comps anyway. Filter on property type and living area, then check the result against the band. The stretch from $389,000 to $507,500 is the wider side here, so a comp set that falls short of the subject on size or finish will read low. And half of all closings still sit beyond the band edges.

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 The Dalles 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: The Dalles, OR
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4172950
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 190
Median sold price: $389,000
Median sold $/sqft: $244 (190 qualifying)
Property mix: 86% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in The Dalles over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.