Maine real estate market update physical.
How’s the market today? Is it a good time to buy or sell property in Maine?
Rounding up the fresh latest real estate listing sales figures from around the state of Maine.
Making sense of the mumbo jumbo statistics and all the real estate jargon used by real estate professionals in the media.
To distill it all down and bring it all on home.
This blog post is all about the Maine real estate market current conditions.
It is NOT a one size fits all blanket to try and apply to the entire country, the rest of New England or any other state.
Just like the current weather forecast. It does not fit every corner of the nation or for that matter even apply to all areas in the state of Maine.
Real estate in Maine is hyper local and lots of variables in the market analysis to study.
So hopping up on the paper covered medical exam room table for a Maine real estate physical.
Reaching up to move, adjust the bright overhead light. Shaking down several times, then carefully sliding a thermometer under the tongue to monitor the current Maine real estate market.
(Squinting, removing reading Maine real estate market thermometer.)
In January, Maine home values held their own.
House sale prices up .65 percent to $389,000. Looking over your shoulder to compare to last January, the median sales price was $386,500.
MOOERS REALTY has regularly hunt and pecked Maine real estate market reports for county by county analysis.
No two housing reports are carbon copy and like people, market snap shots are different.
Maine Listings carefully compiled data reveals 778 single-family existing homes changed hands in January 2026.
That’s down 9.53 percent from a year ago in Maine.
So this is the place in the Maine real estate market blog post where lots of national statistics are rolled in and make your eyes glaze over right?
Nope. I am in Maine, you are buying or selling in Vacationland.
Like a private airplane pilot, you are doing the safety pre-check. Going down through the list to bone up on the LOCAL weather, dialing in the LOCAL GPS flight path before taking off skyward.
Accurate LOCAL information is just as life and death important when buying and selling Maine real estate.
You don’t want outdated property listing sales data. What is happening in California or anywhere else but the Maine real estate market is all that matters.
Maine has sixteen countries and is not a teenie weenie bite size state.
The pulse and temperature of each Maine county real estate market differs greatly.
Depending on where you plan to buy or sell a house in Maine, eyeball and study the list below from Maine Listings.
But definitely drill down into the latest real estate market stats for your primary Maine location of interest.
See and study how many housing units are in the county by county inventory.
Learn what today the price tags read on home listings in Maine.
Get the snap shot county by county along with percent up, down or stayed the same for no change since the last housing listing sales report.
This really helps the guy or gal that asks me in the grocery supermarket or on the phone, in the email when they ask. “How’s the housing market in Maine?”
Or followed up with “what’s my house worth in today’s Maine real estate market?”
Or “Is this a good time to buy a Maine house?” It sure is if you have been renting for far too long.
Here’s the current market in Maine for real estate listing house sales.
ROLLING QUARTER
November 1, 2024—January 31, 2025 and
November 1, 2025—January 31, 2026
Number of Units Sold Median Sales Price
County Last Year This Year % Change Last Year This Year % Change
Statewide 3356 3271 -2.53% $390,350 $391,241 0.23%
Androscoggin 228 206 -9.65% $325,000 $346,500 6.62%
Aroostook 163 163 0.00% $159,900 $180,000 12.57%
Cumberland 661 657 -0.61% $555,000 $565,000 1.80%
Franklin 93 102 9.68% $310,000 $300,000 -3.23%
Hancock 166 168 1.20% $459,310 $419,500 -8.67%
Kennebec 281 287 2.14% $315,000 $315,000 0.00%
Knox 119 103 -13.45% $475,000 $400,000 -15.79%
Lincoln 102 103 0.98% $492,450 $450,000 -8.62%
Oxford 168 175 4.17% $306,550 $342,500 11.73%
Penobscot 354 370 4.52% $286,250 $275,000 -3.93%
Piscataquis 55 57 3.64% $170,000 $215,000 26.47%
Sagadahoc 91 98 7.69% $430,000 $407,000 -5.35%
Somerset 113 118 4.42% $220,000 $249,450 13.39%
Waldo 113 92 -18.58% $355,000 $349,500 -1.55%
Washington 79 66 -16.46% $235,000 $210,000 -10.64%
York 570 506 -11.23% $515,000 $515,000 0.00%
That’s your current Maine real estate market.
The raw the numbers don’t lie for the up, down, sideways.
What the nice and neat rows of housing market statistics don’t show is the why a single home listing sells quickly slowly or not at all.
Regardless of the current real estate market, no matter what interest rates are or are not. There are so many personal reasons for individual markets statistics.
Supply of housing stock may increase but if a Maine real estate agent allows over pricing to happen, that portion of the housing market causes a drag.
Like parked cars on busy interstate lanes of traffic, bloated list prices do not help getting from point A to point B.
A seller who says “I don’t have to sell but you can twist my arm to do so at three or more times the real market house value”.
The Maine bank mortgage loan house appraiser is going to say “Excuse me, ah no”.
Besides pricing your Maine home in line with the current market expectations, marketing has a major role.
I have seen right priced Maine homes and other types of real estate just languish on the local market.
Lack of exposure causes the days on market real estate housing market number to accelerate.
Too many contingencies attached to the Maine house sale can increase marketing time to the point of no one would want to buy under all these conditions.
There is a buyer and seller on the real estate teeter totter remember?
Home buyers of Maine housing units are not stupid.
They one by one come to the conclusion something is seriously wrong with that house listing. Or it is not showing up on their radar at all.
The ones still on the market and on the third or fourth Maine real estate agent sign speared in the lawn out front.
Those have ten foot pole marks all over them. Like luggage still on the carousel going round and round long after everyone has swooped in, claimed their bag, left the terminal.
Priced right, marketed full throttle and loaded with more details, tons of images, lots of maps, better real estate videos.
Excitement is needed to describe the new Maine real estate property listing.
Easy to access property listing details to make what’s for sale stand out online is critical. Is it the best UX for the other end of the marketing signal? Served up on mobile, tablet, laptop, desktop or big TV flat screen 24-7-365?
Today’s Maine real estate agent or broker needs to save time everyone time and provide way way more about real estate listings.
Spill the beans and cut to the chase. On the process of buy and sell, especially the local Maine community vibe and flavor.
The buyers, sellers are counting on the full time effort from the Maine real estate broker.
To get from the slide, swipe, tap tap through all the new Maine home listings.
It’s gotta be quick, fun, easy. To make it to the final sit down around the long conference room table actual Maine real estate closing buyer and seller.
Before the signing a purchase and sale agreement to buy Maine property, you better learn everything you can about Maine.
Here to help you for Maine homes, farms, land, water front, small businesses, rental income apartments.
For all types, prices, locations of property, let’s connect for buying, selling, trading Maine real estate.
I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |
MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houllton Maine 04730 USA