York, PA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around York, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what York 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: 288
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $160,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $95
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $130,000 and $207,900

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 288 closed sales in York 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 $130,000 and $207,900. 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 286 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $75 and $128 per square foot.

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

Median home price in York, PA (September 2026)

The median home price in York is $160,000, measured across the 288 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $130,000 and $207,900.

Where York sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in York 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 $130,000 and $207,900. Among the 48 Pennsylvania markets with a published band, York's middle-half spread ($130,000 to $207,900) ranks 17th 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 10 days, across 206 York closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 32 days, across 195 York closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

York Real Estate Market Trends in 2026

Among the York closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $108 per square foot (119 sales), townhouses at $91 (112 sales) and multi-family homes at $84 (48 sales).

The York angle

The median closed sale price was $160,000 and the middle half of sales closed between $130,000 and $207,900, a spread whose width is close to typical for the markets we cover. There is noticeably more room between the median and the upper quartile than between the median and the lower quartile, so the top of the ordinary range sits further from the middle than the bottom of it does. With this much closed data available, resist quoting the citywide median at all; you have enough sales to assemble a properly matched set and let that set answer the question.

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 York 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: York, PA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 4287048
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 288
Median sold price: $160,000
Median sold $/sqft: $95 (286 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 York over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the York 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 288 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $165,000.