The Cincinnati housing market, by the numbers.
What is for sale across the Cincinnati metro right now, what sold in the last 90 days and what it brought, and how long those homes took to sell — counts and typical values straight from the MLS, refreshed daily. Numbers, their time windows, and nothing else: no forecast, no rating, no appraisal.
Greater Cincinnati by the numbers.
What is for sale and what has sold recently — counts and typical values from the MLS, not an appraisal or a forecast.
As of September 23, 2026
For sale right now
- 3,448 Active
- 2,116 Pending
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Homes for sale now
Active homes are on the market. Pending homes are already under contract with a buyer, so they are not available to buy — they are counted here because they show how much of the area's inventory has already been spoken for. - 3,448
- 2,116 more are pending
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Typical asking price
Line every sale up from the lowest price to the highest. The typical figure is the one in the middle — half the sales are above it, half below. It is not an average: one unusually high or low sale moves an average, but it cannot move the middle. That is why the middle is the figure shown. - $349,900
- of the homes for sale now
- New in the last 30 days
- 2,086
- listings with an on-market date in the window
What sold homes brought
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Typical sold price
Line every sale up from the lowest price to the highest. The typical figure is the one in the middle — half the sales are above it, half below. It is not an average: one unusually high or low sale moves an average, but it cannot move the middle. That is why the middle is the figure shown. - $330,000
- over those 5,282 sales · $320,000 a year ago
- Average sale $401,183 — 21.6% above typical
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Sold for % of asking price
Each sale's price compared with that home's final asking price, then the middle result. Above 100% means the typical home sold for more than it was last asking; below 100% means less. Seller-paid closing costs are not recorded in this data, so a sale that included them netted the seller less than this figure shows. - 100.0%
- typical sale against its final asking price
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Typical price per square foot
Each sale's price divided by the living area the MLS records for that home, then the middle result. Living area is not recorded for every sale, and seller-paid closing costs are not recorded at all, so this is a rough way to compare homes of different sizes rather than a valuation of any one of them. - $185
- for the homes that sold · $182 a year ago
How long it took
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Typical days on market
How long the middle home sat for sale before it sold, counted the way the MLS records it. Half the homes that sold took less time than this and half took more. - 7
- days for the homes that sold, as the MLS records it
- 6 days in the same window a year ago
- Sold in the last 90 days
- 5,282
- closed sales · 5,410 a year ago
Covers homes in Hamilton, Butler, Warren, Clermont and Brown Counties in Ohio, and Dearborn County, Ohio County and Franklin County in Indiana (the Ohio and Indiana counties of the Cincinnati metro area, as this MLS records them; Northern Kentucky homes are listed in a separate MLS and are not included): houses, condos and townhomes (land, commercial, multi-family investment and rental listings excluded). "Typical" is the middle value (the median): half the homes are above it and half below. We show it rather than an average because a few unusually high or low sales can pull an average away from the middle; where an average is shown, it is the average of the same sales. A typical value is reported only when at least 5 listings or sales are in the window. "Sold for % of asking price" compares each sale price with that home's final asking price, and price per square foot uses the living area the MLS records — seller-paid closing costs are not recorded in this data, so both figures overstate what a seller actually netted on any sale that included them. "A year ago" is the same 90-day window one year earlier. We show it only where the two windows differ by more than the normal variation between two groups of sales that size — so a figure with no year-ago number beside it means last year's was too close to this year's to tell apart, or last year's window had too few sales to compare — not that it is missing. Data courtesy of the MLS of Greater Cincinnati. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed — independently verify all details. These figures are not an appraisal or an estimate of any specific home's value; for a specific home, ask us for a comparative market analysis.
A metro number is a starting point.
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Three things the numbers mean, and one they don't.
"Typical" is the middle, not the average
Half the homes are above the typical value and half below. A handful of unusually high or low sales can pull an average a long way from that middle, which is why the average is shown beneath it with the gap between the two — the gap is what the word means.
Why the windows are 90 and 30 days
Sold figures cover the last 90 days so that even a small area reaches enough sales for a typical value to mean something; "new on the market" covers the last 30. Where a figure is missing, there were too few homes in the window to report one honestly — the count is still shown.
"A year ago" is a number, not a direction
Where last year's figure appears beside this year's, the two windows differed by more than the normal variation between two groups of sales that size. Where it doesn't, they were too close to tell apart, or last year's window had too few sales to compare. We print both facts and leave the comparison to you.
What none of this tells you: your home's value
A metro median says nothing about one house on one street. For that, an agent prepares a comparative market analysis — what similar homes nearby actually sold for, adjusted for the differences from yours — and gives you a suggested range based on a CMA, not an appraisal. That is what the request above starts.
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