Published October 9, 2026 in Market Update

In Beavercreek, lower-priced homes got more than they asked

By Stephanie Clemens

Real estate, Beavercreek CMA Combined 10 09

Sellers in Beavercreek often hear the same thing: price it where you want, the market is strong enough to hold it. And for a lot of homes, that has been true. But I pulled every lived-in home that sold in Beavercreek through October 9, 2026, and the numbers tell a more specific story. How well your home holds its price depends a lot on what that price is.

The gap between price ranges is 17.5 points, and that is not noise

Of the 176 homes that sold under $300,000, 58% closed at or above what the seller first asked. Move up one range, to $300,000 to $400,000, and that share drops to 54.1% across 222 homes. At $400,000 to $500,000, it falls to 49.7% across 147 homes. At $500,000 and up, only 40.5% of the 168 homes that sold reached their first asking price.

That is a steady slide, not a random dip. Every step up in price brought a lower share of sellers who got what they first asked. The higher you price, the harder it is to hold that number.

The whole-market numbers look fine on the surface. The typical home sold at 100% of its last asking price and 98.3% of what it first asked. But the last asking price is not the same as the first one. A seller who dropped their price before closing still shows up at 100% of last ask if the final buyer paid full price at the end. The first asking price is where the story starts.

Does the price range you list at change how often you hold your number?

The short answer is yes, clearly. Here is what each range looked like across all 713 sales.

The mistake I see sellers make is treating the list price as a ceiling to negotiate down from. In the under-$300,000 range, more than half of sellers never had to move at all. In the $500,000-and-up range, nearly 6 in 10 sellers ended up below what they first asked. That is a real difference in how buyers behave at different price points.

There is one more number worth sitting with. Right now, 114 homes are for sale in Beavercreek. Of those, 65.8% have already dropped their price, with a typical cut of $25,000. That is not a sign of a broken market, but it does tell you that a lot of sellers started higher than buyers were willing to go.

What this means if you are selling or buying in Beavercreek right now

If you are selling, the supply picture still favors you. At the current pace, it would take 1.8 months to sell every home for sale in Beavercreek. Under 4 months is considered a seller's market. But that does not mean any price sticks. The homes that held their number were priced right the first time. The ones that did not are the 65.8% of current listings that have already cut. Start where the market is, not where you hope it will go.

If you are buying, the rate environment is real. The 30-year fixed mortgage averaged 7.40% as of October 8, 2026, up from 6.30% a year ago (Freddie Mac's weekly rate survey). That affects how far your budget stretches and which price range you land in. The good news is that homes in the under-$300,000 range are still moving, and the typical home there sold at 100% of what the seller first asked, so there is not a lot of room to push the price down. Come in ready.