This page is built from actual recorded sales in Lancaster County, not from a forecast or a national headline. It covers 4,573 residential arms-length sales from July 2025 through July 2026, and it reflects sales recorded through July 14, 2026. The figures come from the Nebraska Department of Revenue, Property Assessment Division residential sales file, the statewide record of arms-length transactions the Division is required to maintain under Neb. Rev. Stat. section 77-1327, assembled from county assessor records.
Lincoln home prices: what a house actually sells for
The median residential sale price over the last twelve months was $315,000. Half of all sales landed between $245,000 and $430,000. That middle range is the number worth carrying around, because a single median hides how wide the Lincoln market actually is.
The average home price in Lincoln over the same period was $361,904. It runs higher than the median because a relatively small number of expensive sales pull the average up. For judging what you can buy or what your house is worth, the median is the more honest number, which is why the rest of this page uses it. Both are here so you can see the gap for yourself.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | $300,000 | 268 |
| August 2025 | $326,013 | 392 |
| September 2025 | $315,000 | 407 |
| October 2025 | $325,000 | 373 |
| November 2025 | $305,000 | 322 |
| December 2025 | $310,100 | 324 |
| January 2026 | $302,000 | 251 |
| February 2026 | $310,900 | 281 |
| March 2026 | $300,000 | 403 |
| April 2026 | $316,500 | 439 |
| May 2026 | $315,000 | 483 |
| June 2026 | $320,000 | 532 |
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 any 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 | 105 |
| 68527 | far northeast Lincoln | $506,115 | 150 |
| 68523 | southwest Lancaster County | $468,502 | 84 |
| 68372 | Hickman | $460,000 | 59 |
| 68526 | far southeast Lincoln | $455,000 | 194 |
| 68516 | southeast Lincoln | $397,500 | 772 |
| 68512 | south Lincoln | $360,000 | 176 |
| 68521 | northwest Lincoln | $300,000 | 446 |
| 68522 | southwest Lincoln | $295,000 | 156 |
| 68528 | west Lincoln | $280,825 | 106 |
| 68506 | southeast Lincoln, inside the older ring | $277,500 | 442 |
| 68505 | east Lincoln | $272,000 | 249 |
| 68510 | east central Lincoln | $260,000 | 296 |
| 68507 | northeast Lincoln, Havelock side | $260,000 | 246 |
| 68524 | northwest Lancaster County | $250,000 | 80 |
| 68502 | south central Lincoln | $250,000 | 339 |
| 68504 | northeast Lincoln | $230,000 | 127 |
| 68508 | downtown and the Haymarket | $215,000 | 60 |
| 68503 | north central Lincoln, near the university | $210,000 | 148 |
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.
Most Lincoln homes sell between $200,000 and $400,000
A median tells you the middle. It does not tell you how much of the market sits where you are shopping. Of the 4,573 sales in this window, 2,057 of them, or 45 percent, closed under $300,000. The single largest band was $200,000 to $299,999, at 1,537 sales.
| Price band | Sales | Share of market |
|---|---|---|
| Under $200,000 | 520 | 11.4% |
| $200,000 to $299,999 | 1,537 | 33.6% |
| $300,000 to $399,999 | 1,104 | 24.1% |
| $400,000 to $499,999 | 648 | 14.2% |
| $500,000 and above | 764 | 16.7% |
What this means: read this against the ZIP table above rather than on its own. A budget that reaches the middle of the market citywide does not reach the middle of every ZIP in it, and that mismatch is the single most common reason a search stalls. If you are selling, it tells you how many buyers are shopping in your band.
Sale prices versus assessed values
Across these sales, the median sale price came in at about 1.06 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 average home price in Lincoln, Nebraska?
The average residential sale price in Lancaster County over the twelve months of July 2025 through July 2026 was $361,904, across 4,573 arms-length sales. The median over the same period was $315,000. The average sits above the median because a smaller number of high-priced sales pull it up, so the median is the better guide to a typical Lincoln house.
What are home values doing in Lincoln, Nebraska?
Across 4,573 recorded arms-length sales from July 2025 through July 2026, the median Lincoln home value came in at $315,000, with the middle half of sales between $245,000 and $430,000. The by-month table on this page shows how the monthly medians moved across the year, and the by-ZIP table shows how widely values differ by part of town. All of it is from recorded county sales rather than an estimate or a national average.
What is the median home price in Lincoln, Nebraska?
The median residential sale price in Lancaster County over the twelve months ending July 14, 2026 was $315,000, across 4,573 arms-length sales. Half of those sales fell between $245,000 and $430,000. 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 1.06 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.
How much of the Lincoln market is under $300,000?
2,057 of the 4,573 residential arms-length sales in July 2025 through July 2026, or 45 percent, closed under $300,000. The largest single price band was $200,000 to $299,999, at 1,537 sales.
What price range do most Lincoln homes sell in?
The largest band is $200,000 to $299,999, which accounted for 34 percent of recorded sales in July 2025 through July 2026. Half of all sales landed between $245,000 and $430,000.
Where does this data come from?
The Nebraska Department of Revenue, Property Assessment Division residential sales file, the statewide record of arms-length transactions the Division is required to maintain under Neb. Rev. Stat. section 77-1327, assembled from county assessor records. It is filtered to the sales the assessor marked as arms-length, between $50,000 and $2,000,000, so that family transfers, forced sales 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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