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Portsmouth Housing Market ReportSeptember 2026

Monthly closed-sale statistics for Portsmouth, Virginia — closed sales, median sold price, price per square foot, days on market, new listings and today's inventory — compiled by VaHome.com from REIN MLS listings information. Updated in place; cite this URL.

Report month: September 2026·Last updated: ·7 complete months of VaHome.com-compiled REIN closings

In September 2026, 130 homes closed in Portsmouth at a median price of $289,500, up $2,500 (+0.9%) from August 2026, at $187 per square foot and a median 21 days on market.
— VaHome.com analysis of REIN MLS closings, Portsmouth

Closed sales

130

vs Aug 2026: +4.0% (+5)vs same month last year: from Feb 2027

Median sold price

$289,500

vs Aug 2026: +0.9% (+$2,500)vs same month last year: from Feb 2027

Median $ / sq ft

$187

vs Aug 2026: −6.0% (−$12)vs same month last year: from Feb 2027

Median days on market

21

vs Aug 2026: +40.0% (+6 days)vs same month last year: from Feb 2027

New listings

289

vs Aug 2026: −12.2% (−40)vs same month last year: from Feb 2027

For sale today

279

Months of supply: 2.1Under contract: 165

279 for sale today ÷ 130 closed in Sep 2026.

Year-over-year columns read “from Feb 2027” because VaHome.com's own capture of closings began in early 2026; a same-month-last-year figure is published only once it can be computed from these rows.

Median sold price and closings by month

$270KMar143$292KApr136$290KMay156$295KJun157$299KJul150$287KAug125$290KSep130Median sold pricebars = homes sold / month
Portsmouth, VA — VaHome.com compilation of REIN closings. Source: REIN MLS sold records via VaHome’s 2-minute sync.
Portsmouth monthly market statistics — last 7 complete months
MonthClosed salesMedian sold priceMedian $/sq ftMedian days on marketNew listings
Mar 2026143$270,000$18725—
Apr 2026136$291,500$19117—
May 2026156$290,000$18319—
Jun 2026157$295,000$19418—
Jul 2026150$299,450$19120354
Aug 2026125$287,000$19915329
Sep 2026130$289,500$18721289

Complete calendar months only; the current month is never shown to date. Medians, never averages. New-listing counts begin with the first month of complete listing-date capture (Jul 2026).

Neighborhoods with the most closings in Sep 2026

REIN subdivision names matched to VaHome.com neighborhood pages; communities with fewer than three closings are not listed.

Closings by ZIP code in Sep 2026

ZIP codes with a VaHome.com listings page.

Nearby cities, same month

CityMonthClosed salesMedian sold priceMedian $/sq ftMedian DOMFor sale today
PortsmouthSep 2026130$289,500$18721279
Norfolk housing market reportSep 2026245$331,000$21421625
Chesapeake housing market reportSep 2026285$410,000$22121760
Suffolk housing market reportSep 2026133$395,000$20831554
Virginia Beach housing market reportSep 2026501$442,000$250171,093

Methodology and sources

  • Rows counted. Residential closed sales reported to REIN MLS in Portsmouth, Virginia (REIN city “Portsmouth”): status Sold, property type Residential, close price above $0, rentals, land, multi-family and commercial excluded. Each sale is placed in the calendar month of its close date.
  • Closed sales is a count. Median sold price, median $/sq ft and median days on market are true medians of the month's closings; days on market is REIN's own days-on-market field for the listing. Averages are not used anywhere on this page because single sales move them.
  • $/sq ft guard. Price per square foot is close price ÷ REIN living area. A closing enters the median only when it has a living area above zero and its $/sq ft falls between $25 and $2,000; closings outside that range are almost always a data-entry error in the price or area field, and the count removed is printed with every figure.
  • New listings counts residential listings whose REIN list date falls in the month. For sale today counts residential listings in Active, New Listing or Coming Soon status without a contingency at the time this page was compiled; under contract counts listings in Under Contract status. Months of supply = for-sale-today ÷ the latest complete month's closed sales.
  • Coverage. VaHome.com's own capture of REIN closings began in early 2026, so the series starts at Mar 2026 — the first month that followed a full month of capture. Nothing before that is shown, modeled or back-filled from third-party figures.
  • Year-over-year. A same-month-last-year comparison appears only when it can be computed from these same rows, which means from February 2027 onward. VaHome.com does not republish REIN's published market reports, charts or year-over-year figures.
  • Update cadence. Updated in place; a month's figures can shift for a few weeks after it closes as late-reported closings arrive, and the Last updated date above records the compile. This URL is permanent — there are no per-month pages.
  • Sources, sync cadence and every other data set on this site: Data sources & methodology.

About the authors

Compiled by Tom & Dariya Milan, Realtors — licensed Virginia real estate agents and the team behind VaHome.com. Both hold the National Association of Realtors' Military Relocation Professional (MRP) certification. Brokered by LPT Realty. Questions about a figure, or a quote for a story: (757) 777-7577 · tom@vahome.com.

Source of listings information: REIN (Real Estate Information Network, Inc.) MLS. All statistics on this page were compiled by VaHome.com from REIN listings information. Interpretations, analytics and derivations are the sole responsibility of Tom & Dariya Milan, Realtors and are not attributable to REIN. Free to cite with attribution to VaHome.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.