Northern Virginia Guide
Northern VirginiaThe Real Estate Guide, 2026
46 places in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William, one set of numbers.
Edition of October 5, 2026Bright MLS closed sales, January 1 to October 2, 20261
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Your guideAhmed MakkiyahREALTOR®, Douglas Realty of Virginia · English and ArabicMobile 734.383.6945 · Direct 703.957.0060
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Quick answer
A median single-family house in Northern Virginia sold for between $610,000 (Woodbridge, Prince William County) and $2,300,000 (McLean, Fairfax County) in 2026; the median townhouse from $400,000 (Triangle) to $1,215,000 (City of Falls Church).
Northern Virginia in six numbers
★ Bright MLS, closed January 1 to October 2, 20261
to $1.24Real estate tax per $100, Loudoun County to the City of Manassas
One page per postal city, all built from the same Bright MLS pull with the same filters, so a number on one page means the same thing on every other. Each page gives the median house and townhouse, how buyers paid, rents, the tax rate, the high schools, the 8 am commute, where to eat, and a direct line to Ahmed Makkiyah, the REALTOR® who pulled the data. Every figure is a closed sale, not a website's estimate.
Four areas
Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William, side by side.
Loudoun has the lowest county tax, Prince William the cheapest houses, Arlington the Metro, and Fairfax the widest spread.
| Area | Places | Houses sold | Median house | Median townhouse | Tax per $1002 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington | 1 | 656 | $1,406,000 | $1,050,000 | $1.053 |
| Fairfax County | 20 | 5,065 | $820,000 to $2,300,000 | $550,000 to $1,215,000 | $1.12 + fees |
| Loudoun County | 15 | 1,813 | $780,000 to $1,765,000 | $485,500 to $840,000 | $0.805 |
| Prince William County | 10 | 2,192 | $610,000 to $1,006,250 | $400,000 to $750,000 | $0.865 + $0.07 levy |
Arlington is one page by zip code because it is one postal city; its townhouse figure is fee-simple townhouses and its condo median was $480,000. The three independent cities in Fairfax County and the two in Prince William County set their own tax rates and run their own schools; the counties are Arlington Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools and Prince William County Public Schools.
Ten towns, ten landmarks
Places locals know on sight.
ViennaThe Freeman Store and caboose
LeesburgThe Loudoun County Courthouse
McLeanScott's Run falls
WoodbridgeThe Occoquan riverfront
AlexandriaThe Wilson Bridge at dusk
SterlingDulles Airport at dusk
HerndonThe Herndon Depot
ManassasThe 1914 Manassas depot
FairfaxGeorge Mason University
SpringfieldThe Lake Accotink trestlePrices
46 places from $610,000 to $2,300,000, on one chart.
Median single-family sale price, every place in the guide, 20261
FairfaxLoudounPrince WilliamArlington
Reading the chart. Every bar is the median closed price of a detached house with at least three bedrooms and two full baths, in one postal city, January 1 to October 2, 2026. McLean, Great Falls and the City of Falls Church are the only places above $1.5 million; Woodbridge, the City of Manassas, Manassas Park and Triangle are the only ones under $700,000.
Townhouses. They run roughly 55 to 70 percent of the local house price everywhere, from $400,000 in Triangle to $1,215,000 in the City of Falls Church; in Ashburn, Centreville, Reston and Woodbridge more townhouses sold than houses.
The pattern. Prices fall with distance from the Potomac and the Metro: inside the Beltway and along the Silver Line they are highest, then eastern Loudoun and the Fairfax suburbs, then Prince William and western Loudoun, where the same money buys a bigger house on more land and a longer drive.
Not sure where you fit? Tell me the payment you want and the commute you can live with, and I will send back the three places that match, with their numbers.
Ask AhmedFairfax County
20 places, from $820,000 to $2,300,000.
The county guide puts all 20 side by side in one table. Open the Fairfax County guide.
McLean
One buyer in three pays cash.
Median house $2,300,000, 335 sold. Townhouse $1.1M.$1.885MGreat Falls
An acre or more. Not one townhouse sold.
Median house $1,885,000, 139 sold.$1.685MCity of Falls Church
A city of 2.2 square miles with its own schools.
Median house $1,685,000, 53 sold. Townhouse $1.215M.$1.453MVienna
Half the houses sold above asking, and the Orange Line starts next door.
Median house $1,453,000, 428 sold. Townhouse $812K.$1.42MOakton
Between Vienna and Fairfax, where four in five townhouses sold in a week.
Median house $1,420,000, 124 sold. Townhouse $798K.$1.35MCity of Alexandria
Its own city, its own schools and tax rate, and 408 townhouses sold this year, half of them in Old Town.
Median house $1,350,000, 219 sold. Townhouse $915K.$1.245MFairfax Station
Houses only, big lots, and one buyer in four used a VA loan.
Median house $1,245,000, 158 sold.$1.12MReston
Two Silver Line stations, five villages, and more townhouses sold than houses.
Median house $1,120,000, 185 sold. Townhouse $676K.$1.1MClifton
Horse country, five-acre zoning, and a historic town of 243 people at its center.
Median house $1,100,000, 86 sold. Townhouse $630K.$1.055MFalls Church
Inside the Beltway, next to Tysons, and one house buyer in five paid cash.
Median house $1,055,000, 377 sold. Townhouse $774K.$985KFairfax
Half the houses sold above asking, and one buyer in seven used a VA loan.
Median house $985,000, 448 sold. Townhouse $735K.$930KLorton
Bigger, newer houses at $358 a foot, next door to Fort Belvoir.
Median house $930,000, 105 sold. Townhouse $550K.$925KAnnandale
Inside the Beltway, where half the houses sold above asking.
Median house $925,000, 251 sold. Townhouse $627K.$925KBurke
Lakes, pools and a VRE station, and most houses sold over asking.
Median house $925,000, 184 sold. Townhouse $616K.$924KChantilly
One name, two counties, and two in three houses sold over asking.
Median house $923,650, 102 sold. Townhouse $662K.$904KCentreville
More townhouses than houses, and $379 a square foot.
Median house $904,500, 172 sold. Townhouse $565K.$885KAlexandria
The busiest market in the guide, and one buyer in four used a VA loan.
Median house $885,000, 782 sold. Townhouse $650K.$879KHerndon
Half the houses sold over asking, with two Silver Line stations in town.
Median house $879,000, 341 sold. Townhouse $652K.$829KSpringfield
The Blue Line starts here, and more than half the houses sold over asking.
Median house $828,857, 455 sold. Townhouse $630K.$820KCity of Fairfax
Its own city, its own schools and tax rate, and townhouses that sell for more than houses.
Median house $820,000, 121 sold. Townhouse $868K.Loudoun County
15 places, from $780,000 to $1,765,000.
The county guide puts all 15 side by side in one table. Open the Loudoun County guide.
Middleburg
Hunt country on Route 50, where 12 of 25 buyers paid cash (Loudoun side only).
Median house $1,765,000, 25 sold.$1.425MWaterford
A historic village, a National Historic Landmark since 1970, where one buyer in four paid cash.
Median house $1,425,000, 29 sold.$1.35MLansdowne
A golf-resort community on the Potomac with a Leesburg address, where no house sold for less than $1 million.
Median house $1,350,000, 46 sold. Townhouse $812K.$1.349MAldie
A tiny mill village, and a zip code full of big, newer houses.
Median house $1,348,862, 182 sold. Townhouse $729K.$1.205MBrambleton
A planned community in eastern Loudoun where every house sold for $950,000 to $1.575 million.
Median house $1,204,938, 62 sold. Townhouse $840K.$1.2MHamilton
A small 1875 town between Leesburg and Purcellville.
Median house $1,200,000, 48 sold.$1.187MAshburn
The end of the Silver Line, where more townhouses sell than houses.
Median house $1,186,700, 255 sold. Townhouse $740K.$1.14MLeesburg
The Loudoun County seat, where nearly one house in five sold brand new.
Median house $1,140,000, 433 sold. Townhouse $700K.$1.14MSouth Riding
A planned community on Route 50 with a Chantilly address.
Median house $1,140,000, 97 sold. Townhouse $707K.$1.127MBroadlands
Six in ten houses sold over asking, and one house buyer in 46 paid cash.
Median house $1,127,180, 46 sold. Townhouse $720K.$1.01MCascades
A 1990s planned community of pools, trails and Potomac parkland in Sterling.
Median house $1,010,000, 27 sold. Townhouse $695K.$920KPurcellville
A western Loudoun town at the end of the W&OD Trail, where one buyer in five paid cash.
Median house $920,000, 122 sold. Townhouse $584K.$850KLovettsville
A small town near the Potomac, founded by German farmers.
Median house $850,000, 68 sold.$850KRound Hill
A small town on Route 7 at the foot of the Blue Ridge.
Median house $850,000, 93 sold. Townhouse $486K.$780KSterling
Next to Dulles, at Ashburn's price per foot, for $406,700 less.
Median house $780,000, 280 sold. Townhouse $592K.Prince William County
10 places, from $610,000 to $1,006,250.
The county guide puts all 10 side by side in one table. Open the Prince William County guide.
Nokesville
A million-dollar house on about six acres, and not one townhouse.
Median house $1,006,250, 68 sold.$992KHaymarket
A small town inside a big zip code, and half the townhouses brand new.
Median house $992,500, 208 sold. Townhouse $750K.$850KGainesville
A big house for the money on Route 29, and one house buyer in seven paid cash.
Median house $850,000, 238 sold. Townhouse $585K.$825KBristow
Four-bedroom houses, and hardly anyone pays cash.
Median house $825,000, 149 sold. Townhouse $570K.$750KManassas
The Prince William County side of Manassas, where the median house has 3,118 square feet.
Median house $749,900, 409 sold. Townhouse $505K.$675KDumfries
More than one buyer in three used a VA loan.
Median house $675,000, 198 sold. Townhouse $518K.$662KTriangle
At the gate of Quantico, where one buyer in three used a VA loan.
Median house $662,500, 44 sold. Townhouse $400K.$635KCity of Manassas Park
Its own small city, its own schools and tax rate, and a VRE station with a new garage.
Median house $634,900, 38 sold. Townhouse $490K.$625KCity of Manassas
Its own city, its own schools and tax rate, and a train station downtown.
Median house $625,000, 119 sold. Townhouse $469K.$610KWoodbridge
Four bedrooms at the guide's lowest median, and one buyer in five used a VA loan.
Median house $610,000, 721 sold. Townhouse $472K.Arlington
One county, one page, and a $1,406,000 median house.
The Arlington guide breaks the county down by zip code, with houses, townhouses and condos. Open the Arlington guide.
Who pulled these numbers
I pull every number myself, so you can act on it.
Each figure is a Bright MLS closed sale, pulled one place at a time with the same filters everywhere, so you can compare any two towns fairly. The person who built this guide is the one who answers when you call.
Details decide deals. Every number here carries its exact dates, every listing gets its town line checked, and every comparable sale is checked by hand, because the small things are where buyers and sellers win or lose money.
Questions
What people ask about Northern Virginia real estate.
What is the cheapest place to buy a house in Northern Virginia in 2026?
Woodbridge, in Prince William County. Its median single-family home (3+ bedrooms, 2+ full baths) sold for $610,000 across 721 Bright MLS sales in 2026. The City of Manassas ($625,000), Manassas Park ($634,900) and Triangle ($662,500) come next. The cheapest in Fairfax County is the City of Fairfax ($820,000); in Loudoun, Sterling ($780,000).
What is the most expensive town in Northern Virginia?
McLean, with a median house of $2,300,000 in 2026 (335 sales), then Great Falls ($1,885,000), Middleburg ($1,765,000) and the City of Falls Church ($1,685,000).
Which Northern Virginia county has the lowest property tax?
Loudoun County, at $0.805 per $100 of assessed value for 2026. Prince William County is $0.865 plus a $0.07 fire levy, Arlington $1.053, and Fairfax County $1.12 plus about $0.0335 in fees. The independent cities set their own rates, from $1.0725 in the City of Fairfax to $1.24 in the City of Manassas. Towns with their own government add a town tax on top of the county rate.
Which Northern Virginia towns have a Metro station?
Arlington has eleven stations on the Orange, Blue, Silver and Yellow lines. In Fairfax County: McLean, Tysons, Reston and Herndon (Silver Line), Vienna and Dunn Loring (Orange), Springfield, Van Dorn and Huntington (Blue and Yellow). In Loudoun: Ashburn and Loudoun Gateway at the end of the Silver Line. Prince William has no Metro; it has Virginia Railway Express at Manassas, Manassas Park, Bristow (Broad Run), Woodbridge, Rippon and Quantico.
How much is a townhouse in Northern Virginia?
In 2026 the median townhouse ranged from $400,000 in Triangle to $1,215,000 in the City of Falls Church. Typical eastern-Loudoun and Fairfax suburbs were $560,000 to $840,000 (Centreville $565,000, Ashburn $740,000, Brambleton $840,000); inside the Beltway and in Arlington $900,000 to $1.2 million.
Where do these numbers come from and how current are they?
Bright MLS closed sales and closed leases, January 1 to October 2, 2026, pulled by Ahmed Makkiyah, a Virginia-licensed REALTOR® with Douglas Realty, one postal city at a time with the same filters everywhere (detached houses with 3+ bedrooms and 2+ full baths; end-of-row and interior-row townhouses; condominium-regime homes left out). Each page shows its own pull date and is refreshed when Ahmed re-pulls the data. They are not estimates from Zillow, Redfin or any listing site.
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