Whitefish, MT Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

Whitefish produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last 12 months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 255
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $995,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $547
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $655,000 and $1,700,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 255 closed sales in Whitefish over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $995,000. 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 $655,000 and $1,700,000. 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 255 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $436 and $760 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Whitefish, MT (August 2026)

The median home price in Whitefish is $995,000, measured across the 255 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $655,000 and $1,700,000.

Where Whitefish sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Whitefish over the last 12 months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $655,000 and $1,700,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

The Whitefish angle

Read $995,000 here as a marker of where recent closings centred, not as a starting price. With 255 closings and a wide $655,000 to $1,700,000 range, hard filtering leaves very little behind. That is not a reason to abandon filtering, but it does mean the honest output is a range with stated assumptions rather than a point estimate presented confidently. The upper part of the band holds more of the spread than the lower part, with more distance from $995,000 to $1,700,000 than from $655,000 to $995,000. Note that skew explicitly when you present the number.

Whitefish market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Whitefish ZIP codes: 59937.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. 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. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,508+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Whitefish 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: Whitefish, MT
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 255
Median sold price: $995,000
Median sold $/sqft: $547 (255 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/whitefish-mt-housing-market

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 Whitefish over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is.