Maricopa AZ Housing Market: September 2026 Month-End Sold Report

Updated October 2026

How did the Maricopa AZ housing market perform in September 2026?

115 homes closed in the City of Maricopa in September 2026, per ARMLS, across zip codes 85138 (85 closings) and 85139 (30). September 2025 produced 153. The price held, but volume did not: the median sold price of $333,355 sits within 1 percent of last September’s $336,000, while closings fell about 25 percent. Homes that did sell moved faster than a year ago, at 65 days versus 78, and sellers gave up less from their original asking price, 97.6 percent versus 95.0. Fewer buyers, steady prices, quicker sales for the homes priced right: that is September in one sentence.

This report covers the full month, including the last week, which was not published separately. A few late closings may still post; the figures here are as of an October 1 pull.

What did homes sell for in September 2026?

The median sold price was $333,355 at a median of $185 per square foot, a dollar under September 2025’s $186. The average was about $353,000. Sales ranged from $225,000 in Alterra to $1,185,000 for a newly built custom home on about ten acres of rural 85139 land, the highest closing this series has recorded. The median closed home was 1,884 square feet; 96 of the 115 sales had three or four bedrooms, and single-level homes outnumbered two-story homes, 87 to 28.

Closed sales, City of Maricopa, September 1 to 30, 2026, per ARMLS. Not warranted.

Sixty-four percent of September’s closings landed under $350,000, up from about half in August, which is why September's median came in below August’s $350,000 even as per-square-foot prices rose. The mix tilted smaller, not the market lower. Fourteen pool homes closed at a $465,000 median, up from $329,990 for the 101 without. No golf course lot homes and no basement homes closed in September.

The month week by week

Week-one through week-three figures are restated to the October 1 pull; the September 15 to 21 report published 22 closings, now 23. The final week was folded into this report.

The median rose a little each week and days on market fell through the month. The weekly reports carry the detail: September 1 to 7, with the record acreage sale; September 8 to 14, with the per-foot gap that turned out to be mix; and September 15 to 21, where that gap closed.

Sold prices by subdivision

Fewer than three closings: Acacia Crossings, Desert Cedars, and Palomino Ranch (two each); Alterra, Cobblestone Farms, Desert Passage, El Rancho Santa Rosa, Hidden Valley, and Smith Farms (one each); plus three custom homes on county land. Individual sales, not community values.

Rancho El Dorado: the busiest community and the widest spread

Rancho El Dorado sold data led the city again with 19 closings, and it held both ends of the month: the September 8 to 14 week’s 2002 pool home at $465,000 in 64 days, and a 2024 builder home that closed after 645 days on the market, the longest wait this series has recorded. The median, $325,000 in 82 days, describes neither of them.

The fast lane: Anderson Farms, Maricopa Meadows, Glennwilde

Anderson Farms closed six homes at a 13-day median, including two that went under contract the day they listed. Maricopa Meadows’ three closings averaged 6 days. Glennwilde home sales took 44 days at the median across nine closings and produced the month’s highest subdivision sale, $613,000 for a 2019 pool home in 36 days. Small new builds and correctly priced resales moved fastest all month.

The patience markets: Province, Elena Trails, Santa Rosa Springs

Province took a median of 154 days across five closings, with one sale in 19 days and another in 275. Elena Trails ran 107 days and Santa Rosa Springs 106. These communities sell; they sell slowly when the first price is ambitious, and the spread inside each one shows the first price decided the wait.

New construction vs. resale

Counts new build closings reported to ARMLS; the custom acreage home is counted with resale here because it was not a builder sale. Builder-direct closings that skip the MLS are not reflected.

New construction accounted for 41 percent of September’s closings, the highest share this series has recorded, up from 29 percent in August. Builders sold at $198 per square foot and closed at 99.2 percent of their original asking price; resales sold at $161 and closed at 96.9 percent of the original. Over a full month the mix noise of the weekly reports washes out, and a real gap remains: about $37 per square foot. For a resale seller, that gap is both the argument (lot, landscaping, an established street, no construction wait) and the constraint (a price that acknowledges the builder down the road). New construction against resale in Maricopa covers the durable differences.

Inventory: 6.2 months of supply

As of September 29, ARMLS reported 718 active listings in the City of Maricopa, with a median asking price of $349,999. 60.2 percent had taken at least one price reduction, averaging about $23,900, the highest reduced share this series has tracked. Against September’s 115 closings, that is about 6.2 months of supply, up from roughly 5.5 against August’s pace. Six months is the conventional line between a balanced market and one that favors buyers.

Two notes on reading that. Inventory did not jump; it has held near 720 to 730 all month. Supply rose because closings fell. And the active listings’ median of 64 days describes homes still sitting, not how long a correctly priced home takes; September’s correctly priced homes sold in days to a few weeks. Setting a first price in a six-month market is the question that matters most this fall.

Distressed sales

Per ARMLS. Deemed reliable but not warranted.

Six distressed closings recorded in September, about 5 percent of the month, against roughly 6 percent in August. The share held rather than grew, and every one of the six sold under $300,000. If you are behind on payments, the options narrow with each month: Maricopa homeowners facing foreclosure can see the paths that are still open.

Third quarter and year to date

Closed sales, City of Maricopa, per ARMLS as of October 1, 2026.

The quarter tells the same story as the month, but on a steadier scale: third-quarter closings ran about 13 percent below last year, while the median price was identical at $107. Year to date, volume is down about 6 percent and the median about 1.4 percent. Maricopa prices have been flat for a year; buyer volume moved, and September was the sharpest month for it.

What this means if you are thinking about selling

September ended the summer with prices holding, homes selling faster than a year ago, and the full final asking price at the median, inside a market where supply crossed six months for the first time this year and six in ten listings have already cut price. That combination rewards one thing and punishes one thing. It rewards a first price set from the last 60 days of closings in your own community; those homes sold in days and weeks. It punishes a first price set from hope; those homes sat for months and then sold at the market’s number anyway, after the reductions. The Maricopa market hub carries every weekly and monthly report in this series.

James Sanson has been a licensed Arizona real estate agent since August 2002 and a Maricopa specialist since 2004, with more than 1,300 closings tracked on Zillow. To see what September’s closed data says about your home and your community, request a September-based value for your home or call 520-838-8037. You will get a real comparison from closed sales, not an automated estimate.

Data source: Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service (ARMLS), closed residential sales, City of Maricopa, Pinal County, zip codes 85138 and 85139, September 1 to September 30, 2026, pulled October 1, 2026; active inventory as of September 29, 2026. Information is deemed reliable but is not warranted. Figures reflect their pull dates and may shift as late closings post. This report is market information, not an appraisal, and no outcome for any individual sale is promised. James Sanson | Real Broker | Licensed in Arizona