This page is built from actual recorded sales in Lancaster County, not from a forecast or a national headline. It covers 3,359 residential arms-length sales from July 2025 through July 2026, and it is refreshed as new records post. Last updated with sales recorded through July 16, 2026.
What a house actually sells for in Lincoln
The median residential sale price over the last twelve months was $320,000. Half of all sales landed between $249,500 and $430,935. That middle range is the number worth carrying around, because a single median hides how wide the Lincoln market actually is.
Median sale price by month
Monthly medians move around, and single months are noisy. The pattern across the year matters more than any one row.
| Month | Median sale price | Sales recorded |
|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | $326,000 | 306 |
| September 2025 | $315,000 | 320 |
| October 2025 | $325,500 | 280 |
| November 2025 | $301,000 | 240 |
| December 2025 | $300,000 | 249 |
| January 2026 | $306,000 | 227 |
| February 2026 | $315,000 | 257 |
| March 2026 | $305,000 | 347 |
| April 2026 | $319,000 | 365 |
| May 2026 | $313,450 | 374 |
| June 2026 | $365,000 | 275 |
July 2025, July 2026 sat at the edge of the data window with only a partial set of recorded sales, so those months are excluded from the table rather than shown as a trend.
Median sale price by ZIP code
This is where the spread shows up. The same city contains ZIP codes whose medians differ by more than double, which is why a citywide average is close to useless when you are shopping one part of town.
| ZIP | Area | Median sale price | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 68520 | far east Lancaster County | $670,000 | 71 |
| 68527 | far northeast Lincoln | $492,078 | 120 |
| 68372 | Hickman | $464,000 | 46 |
| 68523 | southwest Lancaster County | $448,800 | 69 |
| 68526 | far southeast Lincoln | $426,250 | 160 |
| 68516 | southeast Lincoln | $395,000 | 588 |
| 68512 | south Lincoln | $360,000 | 136 |
| 68522 | southwest Lincoln | $301,000 | 113 |
| 68521 | northwest Lincoln | $300,376 | 340 |
| 68528 | west Lincoln | $288,450 | 82 |
| 68506 | southeast Lincoln, inside the older ring | $280,000 | 298 |
| 68505 | east Lincoln | $270,000 | 177 |
| 68510 | east central Lincoln | $260,000 | 215 |
| 68507 | northeast Lincoln, Havelock side | $257,200 | 179 |
| 68502 | south central Lincoln | $253,000 | 235 |
| 68524 | northwest Lancaster County | $252,500 | 70 |
| 68508 | downtown and the Haymarket | $237,450 | 44 |
| 68504 | northeast Lincoln | $233,000 | 79 |
| 68503 | north central Lincoln, near the university | $210,000 | 107 |
ZIP codes with fewer than 40 recorded sales in the window are left out, because a median built on a handful of houses is not a meaningful number.
Sale prices versus assessed values
Across these sales, the median sale price came in at about 1.09 times the assessed value on the same parcel. That is a useful sanity check when you are looking at a specific house: assessment is a starting point, not a market value, and the gap between the two is where pricing conversations actually happen.
How to read this if you are buying or selling
If you are selling, the number that matters is not the citywide median, it is what comparable houses in your ZIP and your price band have actually closed for recently. If you are buying, the quartile range tells you more than the median does, because it shows you what your budget really reaches in the part of town you want.
We are happy to run the specific comparable sales for an address, whether or not you are ready to do anything about it. That is a short conversation and there is no cost to it.
Questions people ask
What is the median home price in Lincoln, Nebraska?
The median residential sale price in Lancaster County over the twelve months ending July 16, 2026 was $320,000, across 3,359 arms-length sales. Half of those sales fell between $249,500 and $430,935. Those figures come from recorded county sale records rather than from listing estimates.
Which parts of Lincoln are most and least expensive?
The spread by ZIP is large. The highest-median ZIP in the data is 68520 at $670,000, and the lowest is 68503 at $210,000. That is more than a factor of two between areas of the same city, which is why a citywide average is not much help when you are shopping a specific part of town.
Is the Lincoln housing market going up or down?
Monthly medians move around enough that any single month is noise. The table on this page shows the last twelve months of recorded medians so you can see the actual pattern rather than a headline. For a specific house, recent comparable sales in that ZIP and price band tell you far more than the citywide direction.
How do assessed values compare to sale prices in Lincoln?
Across these sales the median sale came in at roughly 1.09 times the assessed value of the same parcel. Assessment is a starting point rather than a market value, so the two numbers routinely differ, and the size of that gap varies by property.
Where does this data come from?
Lancaster County assessor sale records, filtered to residential warranty deed transactions between $50,000 and $2,000,000 so that nominal transfers and outliers do not distort the medians. The window is July 2025 through July 2026, and the page is regenerated from the source records rather than written by hand.
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