The median sales price for a single-family home in March reached $530,000, a modest 1 percent increase from the same month last year. That marks the smallest year-over-year monthly gain since May 2023 and may suggest that price growth is beginning to ease.
NEW HAMPSHIRE MONTHLY INDICATORS
A broader look at the market, however, tells a more complicated story. For the first quarter of 2026, which includes January through March, the median sales price for a single-family home also stood at $530,000. That figure represents a 3.9 percent increase over the first quarter of 2025, indicating that home values continue to trend upward overall.
“These numbers highlight a market that may be in transition,” said NHAR President Josh Greenwald. "While the March data point to some moderation in price growth, the quarterly trend shows that demand still continues to outpace supply, keeping upward pressure on home prices.”
Market conditions in the coming months will help determine whether March’s slower rate of growth signals a lasting shift or simply a temporary pause in what remains a competitive housing market.
Closed sales of single-family homes also reflected mixed conditions. Sales rose 5.6 percent in March compared to a year earlier, but for the first quarter as a whole, closed sales were down 0.6 percent.
“We are seeing more homes on the market than in recent years,” said Greenwald. “But we still have fewer than half the number of homes for sale than we did before COVID. In the first quarter of 2026, there were about 1,400 homes for sale on average each month. Compare that to the first quarter of 2019, when there were roughly 3,600 homes for sale, and in our last sign of a balanced market (October 2016) there were over 7,100.
“That lack of inventory continues to keep prices high.”
Median single-family home prices in the first quarter varied by county. Carroll County ($520,000, up 10.5 percent), Cheshire County ($402,00, up 7.9 percent), and Grafton County ($437,500, up 6.7 percent) posted the largest increases compared to the first quarter of 2025.
Meanwhile, prices declined in Coos County ($231,500, down 6.5 percent), Sullivan County ($355,000, down 5.3 percent), and Hillsborough County ($540,917, down 1.7 percent). Rockingham County remained unchanged at $650,000.
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