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August 27, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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West Melbourne, FL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in West Melbourne: a median closing price of $407,000 across 209 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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West Melbourne, FL Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around West Melbourne, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what West Melbourne 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: 209
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $407,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $195
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $308,690 and $490,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 209 closed sales in West Melbourne over the last six months, with a median closing price of $407,000. 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 $308,690 and $490,000. 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. 82% of the West Melbourne 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 209 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $175 and $224 per square foot.

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

Median home price in West Melbourne, FL (September 2026)

The median home price in West Melbourne is $407,000, measured across the 209 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $308,690 and $490,000.

Where West Melbourne sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in West Melbourne
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $309k to $490k
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$152k to $254k: 23 sales$152k$254k to $355k: 39 sales$355k to $457k: 62 sales62sales$355k$457k to $558k: 41 sales$558k to $660k: 15 sales$558kMedian $407k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in West Melbourne 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 $308,690 and $490,000. Among the 194 Florida markets with a published band, West Melbourne's middle-half spread ($308,690 to $490,000) ranks 53rd 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 37th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

Median sold price per square foot
West Melbourne monthly medians for the complete months inside the last six months, Apr 2026 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 5 months plotted.
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Apr 2026: $184 per square foot across 34 sales$184AprMay 2026: $208 per square foot across 37 sales$208MayJun 2026: $211 per square foot across 49 sales$211JunJul 2026: $192 per square foot across 41 sales$192JulAug 2026: $201 per square foot across 30 sales$201Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 36 days, across 144 West Melbourne closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 25 days, across 126 West Melbourne 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 209 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The West Melbourne angle

The West Melbourne record shows 209 closings tracked over the last six months, a median closed sale price of $407,000, and a middle half of sales between $308,690 and $490,000. The width of that band is close to typical for the markets we track: enough clustering for the median to mean something, enough variation that no single figure prices a specific home. Slightly more of the band sits below the median than above it, so a step down from $407,000 has marginally more ordinary territory to land in than the same step up. Treat the quartiles as the boundaries of unremarkable outcomes in West Melbourne and reserve numbers outside them for properties you can show are genuinely unusual.

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 West Melbourne address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: West Melbourne, FL
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 1276500
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 209
Median sold price: $407,000
Median sold $/sqft: $195 (209 qualifying)
Property mix: 82% houses
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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 West Melbourne over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the West Melbourne 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 12% of the 209 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $415,000.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in West Melbourne?

The median sold price in West Melbourne over the last 6 months is $407,000, measured across 209 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in West Melbourne last month?

Resideline tracked 31 closed sales in West Melbourne in August 2026, out of 209 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 West Melbourne?

The middle half of West Melbourne sales over the last six months closed between $308,690 and $490,000, with a median of $407,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in West Melbourne?

Among qualifying West Melbourne closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $195, measured across 209 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

What counts as a normal sale price in West Melbourne?

Half of the closings we tracked over the last six months landed between $308,690 and $490,000, so that range is the most defensible definition of normal. A quarter of sales closed below it and a quarter above it, which means prices outside the band are not rare, they just need a reason. The median of $407,000 marks the center of gravity rather than a ceiling or a floor.

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