Wilkes Barre, PA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Wilkes Barre, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Wilkes Barre 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: 171
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $160,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $95
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $105,000 and $210,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 171 closed sales in Wilkes Barre over the last six months, with a median closing price of $160,000. 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 $105,000 and $210,000. 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 168 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $57 and $125 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Wilkes Barre, PA (September 2026)

The median home price in Wilkes Barre is $160,000, measured across the 171 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $105,000 and $210,000.

Where Wilkes Barre sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Wilkes Barre 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 $105,000 and $210,000. Among the 48 Pennsylvania markets with a published band, Wilkes Barre's middle-half spread ($105,000 to $210,000) ranks 31st 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 78th 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 22 days, across 54 Wilkes Barre closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 35 days, across 51 Wilkes Barre closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Wilkes Barre angle

Wilkes Barre asks you to be careful with the citywide figure, because the distance from $105,000 to $210,000 is wider than in most markets we track. When the middle half of closings covers that much price territory, $160,000 marks a midpoint rather than a typical outcome, and using it as a starting estimate imports a large unstated error. Unusually, the width sits low. There is more distance from $105,000 up to $160,000 than from $160,000 up to $210,000, so the lower part of this market is where closings are furthest apart. A comp set assembled below the midpoint will scatter more than its count suggests. Match on property type and size, keep the list short, and let the spread inside your own comps stand in for confidence rather than borrowing the citywide band for that job.

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 Wilkes Barre 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: Wilkes Barre, PA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4285152
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 171
Median sold price: $160,000
Median sold $/sqft: $95 (168 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 Wilkes Barre over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Wilkes Barre 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 30% of the 171 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $170,000.