Median Home Price in Sylvania, Ohio: The 2026 Market

Sylvania single-family homes closed at a median of $368,000 from January 1 to September 30, 2026. That is 286 sales in the NORIS MLS, at about $171 a square foot, in a median of 38 days. I live in Sylvania and I sell across the west side, and the question I get about my own town more than any other is what it is like to buy here. This is the version I give across a kitchen table, with the numbers under it.

One note before the numbers. "Sylvania" in the MLS is the mailing address, and the 43560 mailing area covers the City of Sylvania and a big piece of Sylvania Township. The city itself is about 6.7 square miles of land per Census Reporter's ACS 2024 profile. When I say Sylvania below, I mean the mailing address, because that is how buyers search and how the MLS reports it.

What do homes in Sylvania sell for in 2026?

The town median hides a wide spread, and the spread is the story. Sylvania sold homes this year from $155,000 to $1,650,000. The middle half landed between $290,000 and $474,925.

Sale price band	2026 closings	Share of sales
Under $200,000	7	2%
$200,000 to $299,999	71	25%
$300,000 to $399,999	86	30%
$400,000 to $499,999	63	22%
$500,000 to $749,999	47	16%
$750,000 and up	12	4%
All single-family	286	Median $368,000

Source: NORIS MLS exports, Single Family Residence, City = Sylvania, closed January 1 to September 30, 2026, deduplicated on List Number, sales under $40,000 or 400 sq ft excluded.

The older version of this post said you could buy in at under $200,000. That has mostly stopped being true. Seven closings under $200,000 in nine months is a rounding error, and most of what traded there was small and dated. If your ceiling is under $200,000, Sylvania's mailing area is a stretch, and I would rather tell you that up front than send you to showings that go nowhere.

Where Sylvania still does something most west side towns do not is the move-up path. 157 of this year's closings sat between $200,000 and $400,000, and another 122 sat above $400,000. You can buy at $280,000, outgrow it, and buy at $480,000 without changing towns, parks or the downtown you already use. It is a big part of why I put my own money here.

What does each era of Sylvania housing cost?

Sylvania's housing stock runs from the 1920s to homes finished this year, and price per square foot moves with age more than people expect.

Year built	2026 closings	Median sale price	Median $/sq ft	Median days on market	Median sq ft
Before 1950	16	$244,500	$157	32	1,435
1950 to 1969	60	$269,950	$161	36	1,664
1970 to 1989	79	$345,000	$157	38	2,130
1990 to 2009	74	$433,500	$172	41	2,638
2010 and newer	56	$512,450	$220	36	2,497

Source: same NORIS filter as above, grouped by MLS Year Built; one sale without a year built is excluded, so the rows sum to 285.

Two things jump out of that table. Homes built from 1950 through 1989 trade at about the same price per foot as homes built before 1950, so in that range you are mostly paying for size and condition. The jump comes with the newest homes, where buyers paid $220 a foot on a median of about 2,500 square feet. 19 of those were new construction at a median of $547,900.

Single-story homes are their own lane. 84 of the 286 sales were one-story homes, at a median of $335,000, and they get shopped hard. I wrote about that lane in ranch homes for sale in Sylvania.

How fast are Sylvania homes selling?

The median Sylvania single-family home closed in 38 days this year. 186 of the 286 sales, about 65 percent, closed at or above their final list price, and 140 of them closed above it. Meanwhile 42 percent closed below their original list price.

Those last two numbers sound like they disagree. They don't. The homes that priced right at launch drew competition and sold at or over the number. The homes that launched high took a price cut, and the cut is what moved them. The median sale came in at 100 percent of original list, which tells you the middle of the market is priced about right, and the 42 percent tells you how many sellers guessed high anyway.

Supply is the other half. On October 8, 2026 the live MLS feed showed 80 active single-family listings in Sylvania at a median ask of $452,400. At this year's pace of about 32 closings a month, that is roughly 2.5 months of supply. The active list skews higher than what has been selling: 25 of the 80 are priced at $500,000 or more, 4 are at $1,000,000 or more, and 23 are new construction.

For buyers, that gap between the active median and the sold median is useful. The homes that have been sitting tend to be priced above where the town has been closing. When I pull comps for a client in Sylvania, the active list tells me what sellers hope for and the closed list tells me what buyers paid.

How does Sylvania compare to its neighbors?

Town (MLS mailing city)	2026 SFR closings	Median sale	Median $/sq ft	Median days on market	Closed under original list	Median annual tax as % of sale
Sylvania	286	$368,000	$171	38	42%	1.81%
Ottawa Hills	42	$432,450	$166	40	64%	2.46%
Perrysburg	361	$422,600	$196	37	36%	1.43%
Maumee	221	$315,000	$175	34	37%	1.68%
Holland	132	$331,450	$164	38	41%	1.75%
Toledo	2,051	$156,000	$120	39	44%	1.49%

Source: NORIS MLS, Single Family Residence, closed January 1 to September 30, 2026, same exclusions. Tax column is the seller's MLS-listed six-month total tax times two, divided by the sale price, median of each town's sales with a tax figure.

Sylvania sits in the middle of the west side on price and near the top on carrying cost. The tax column is where people get surprised. A Sylvania home at the town median carried a median annual bill of $6,290 on the seller's last statement. Perrysburg buyers paid more for the house and less for the tax, with a median bill of $5,410; Perrysburg sits in Wood County, under a different levy stack. I break the rates down district by district in property taxes in Toledo, Ohio, and the head-to-heads people ask about most are Sylvania versus Ottawa Hills and Sylvania versus Perrysburg.

Two more cost items belong in a Sylvania budget. The City of Sylvania's municipal income tax is 1.5 percent per the city's taxation FAQ, so check whether your address is inside city limits or in the township. And Sylvania Schools are going back to voters. After a 7.9-mill operating levy failed in May with roughly 60 percent voting no, the board voted to pursue a 1 percent earned income tax levy paired with a 1-mill property tax reduction for the November ballot, per 13abc. If that passes, the math on a Sylvania purchase shifts a little from the tax bill to the paycheck.

What is the Greater Toledo market doing around Sylvania?

Realtor.com's 2026 top markets forecast, published December 10, 2025, ranked Toledo fourth among the 100 largest U.S. metros on combined sales and price growth, at roughly 12 percent. That was a forecast. What has happened since is in the MLS's own Market Summary: the median residential sale across NORIS was $214,000 for 2026 through July, up 7.0 percent from $200,000 over the same months of 2025, on 5,439 sales versus 5,234. The MLS put absorption at 3.02 months in July.

So the metro is up, with more sales and a little more inventory than the forecast headlines suggested. Sylvania's established streets get some shelter from that inventory because the town is largely built out. But the 42 percent of sellers who cut their price this year are the reminder that buyers here watch for months and know what things are worth.

Rates matter too. Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey put the 30-year fixed average at 7.40 percent on October 8, 2026. At that rate, 5 percent down on Sylvania's $368,000 median works out to about $2,421 a month in principal and interest, plus about $524 a month in property tax at the town's median bill, before insurance.

What should a buyer check on an older Sylvania house?

My dad, my grandpa, my uncle and my great-grandpa were builders, and I did that work until I was twenty. That background shows up in what I look at when I walk a Sylvania house with a client, especially the pre-1990 stock that makes up more than half of this year's sales.

I'm looking for water first. Downspouts that dump next to the foundation, grading that runs toward the house, staining in the basement. 225 of the 286 homes sold this year were listed with a basement, so this comes up on almost every showing. Then the windows, where a broken seal shows up as fog between the panes. Then the siding and the soffit. Then everything that has been touched since the house was built: wiring, plumbing, and the sewer line out to the street under trees that have been growing for sixty years.

None of that replaces a home inspection, and I am not a home inspector. You still need one. What it does is put a number on the house before you write the offer instead of after, so the inspection confirms what we already priced in.

Who does Sylvania fit?

I sort this by what the house and the location do, the same way I would do it in person.

Sylvania fits if you want	Sylvania fits less if you want
A move-up path inside one town, from the $200,000s through the $500,000s	A home under $200,000, which made up 2% of 2026 sales
Established neighborhoods, a walkable Main Street downtown and the Red Bird Arts District	Mostly new construction, where Perrysburg recorded 65 new-build closings this year to Sylvania's 19
A commute to the west side, the hospitals or downtown Toledo; the city's mean commute is 21.9 minutes per Census Reporter's ACS 2024 5-year data	A daily drive down I-75 south, where Perrysburg and Maumee sit closer

The relocation guide walks the commute-first sorting for the whole west side, and the west side suburb comparison lines Sylvania up against the rest of the map. If you want to see what specific Sylvania neighborhoods closed for this year, that is in Sylvania neighborhoods: what homes sold for in 2026.

What would I tell you if you called me today?

Buying: get ready before you shop. With about 2.5 months of supply and 65 percent of this year's sales closing at or over their final list price, the buyer who wins the right house had the loan underwritten and the criteria settled before it hit the market. 72 percent of this year's Sylvania buyers used conventional financing and 15 percent paid cash, so your offer is competing with clean terms.

Selling: price it right on day one. The 42 percent who launched high and cut later still sold, but they gave buyers weeks to watch the house sit. The ones who priced to the closed comps got the competition.

Either way, the numbers that decide things are street-level. Send me your street or your budget and I'll pull what has closed on it this year, not what the regional average says.

Sources

• NORIS MLS exports, Single Family Residence, City = Sylvania and neighboring towns, closed January 1 to September 30, 2026 (computed October 8, 2026).
• Live MLS listing feed, status Active only, October 8, 2026.
• NORIS Market Summary, Residential, downloaded August 30, 2026 (2026 YTD median $214,000 vs $200,000 in 2025 YTD; July 2026 absorption 3.02 months).
• Census Reporter, Sylvania, OH city profile, ACS 2024 5-year: 6.7 square miles of land, 21.9-minute mean commute.
• Realtor.com 2026 top housing markets forecast, December 10, 2025.
• Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey, 30-year fixed 7.40% as of October 8, 2026.
• City of Sylvania taxation FAQ, 1.5% municipal income tax.
• 13abc, June 30, 2026, Sylvania Schools earned income tax levy plan.

Adam Geuy, Realtor - Blacktree Realty. ABR, PSA, SRS. Greater Toledo, Ohio. 419.540.8659.

I work this town every week and I have my own house here, so this is the read I give my neighbors when they ask what theirs is worth.