Published September 16, 2026

Blossomwood Home Prices in 2026: A Huntsville Neighborhood Market Report

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Team Nemec  ·  2026 Neighborhood Market Report

Blossomwood Home Prices in 2026

Thirty-eight homes closed in Blossomwood this year. Half of them went under contract within two weeks — and the other half tell the story every owner here should read before they set a price.

The short answer

Blossomwood's median closed sale price in 2026 is $542,000 across 38 sales between January 1 and September 5, at a median of $218.66 per square foot. The median home was 2,522 square feet, built in 1962, and went under contract in 14.5 days at 98.8% of its asking price.

But the headline number hides the thing that actually matters. Half of Blossomwood went under contract within two weeks. Thirteen homes took longer than sixty days — and those closed at a median 9.7% below what they originally asked. The homes that sold inside two weeks closed at a median of exactly 100% of their original asking price. The ones that sat did not come close.

That is a $50,000 to $70,000 swing on a typical Blossomwood house, and it is decided in the week before the sign goes in the yard.

$542,000Median closed sale price across 38 salesValleyMLS, Jan 1 – Sep 5, 2026
$218.66Median price per square foot of finished spaceValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
14.5 daysMedian days on market — half sold fasterCumulative days on market
98.8%Median sale price as a share of asking priceValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
50%Of all sales closed within 14 days of listing19 of 38 sales
9.7%The median discount taken by homes that sat past 60 days13 of 38 sales

Section one

What Blossomwood actually sold for

Thirty-eight homes closed between January 1 and September 5. Here is where every one of them landed.

Closed sale prices, Blossomwood, 2026 year to date

Distribution of closed sale prices 0 5 10 15 7 6 14 3 5 1 1 1 $300,000 $500,000 $700,000 $900,000 $1.10M $1.30M $1.50M Median $542,000 Number of closed sales in each price band

Source: ValleyMLS closed-sale data, January 1 – September 5, 2026. n = 38.

The single densest band is $500,000 to $600,000 — fourteen of the thirty-eight sales, more than a third of the entire year. That is the heart of the Blossomwood market: a three- or four-bedroom mid-century house of roughly 2,000 to 2,800 square feet, updated to some degree, on one of the neighborhood's characteristically large lots.

Now notice the gap. The median is $542,000. The average is $605,299. A $63,000 spread between the two, and it exists for one reason: three sales at $1.2 million and above pulled the average up while leaving the typical house exactly where it was.

Why this matters to you. If you have been told — by a website, a neighbor, or an agent — that “Blossomwood is averaging just over $600,000,” that number is real but it is not your number unless you own one of the three houses that made it. The median is the honest middle. Twenty-seven of the thirty-eight sales this year closed below $600,000.
$308,000Lowest closed sale of 20261110 McClung Avenue
$542,000Median — the true middle of the market19 sales above, 19 below
$1,490,000Highest closed sale of 20261101 SE Harrison Avenue

Section two — the most important chart in this report

The first two weeks decide your price

This is not an opinion about pricing strategy. It is what Blossomwood's own closed sales did in 2026.

How far below the original asking price homes sold, by time on market

Median discount from original asking price, grouped by how long the home was on the market 0% 5% 10% 0.0% Sold in the first two weeks 19 sales 2.5% On the market 15 to 60 days 5 sales 9.7% On the market more than 60 days 13 sales Median sale price as a shortfall from the ORIGINAL list price. 0% = sold for the full original ask.

Source: ValleyMLS, Blossomwood closed sales, 2026 YTD. Compares final sale price to the original list price, not the reduced one. n = 37 sales with a reported original list price.

Nineteen Blossomwood homes went under contract within fourteen days. Their median sale price was 100.0% of their original asking price — thirteen of the nineteen got the full original number or better. Across the whole year, fifteen Blossomwood homes sold at or above what they first asked, and thirteen of those fifteen were under contract inside two weeks.

Thirteen homes took longer than sixty days. Their median sale price was 90.3% of what they first asked. On a house originally listed at $650,000, that is a $63,000 difference.

The extremes are worse than the medians. One Blossomwood home spent 589 days accumulating market time and closed at $699,900 against a $775,000 original ask. Another asked $699,900, sat 245 days, and settled at $535,000 — 76% of the opening number.

An honest caveat, because you deserve one. This chart shows a relationship, not a proven cause. A home can sit for 200 days because it was overpriced, or because it has a functional problem a buyer discovers at showing three. Both explanations produce this same shape. What the data cannot separate, it also does not need to: in either case the market told the seller something in the first fortnight, and the price that eventually cleared was well below the one they opened with. The practical instruction is identical — price to what the house actually is on day one.

There is a mechanical reason the first two weeks carry this much weight. A new listing in a neighborhood as watched as Blossomwood reaches every buyer with a saved search, every agent with a client in the $500,000s, and every neighbor who has been waiting for a house on that street, all in the same forty-eight hours. That audience does not reassemble. When a home is still available in week nine, the people seeing it are not the motivated pool that saw it in hour one — they are bargain hunters asking why it is still there.

Section three

Why “price per square foot” will mislead you here

Blossomwood's closed sales in 2026 ranged from $94.28 to $383.30 per square foot. That is a four-fold spread inside a single neighborhood.

$178.7825th percentile — a quarter of sales landed below thisValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
$218.66Median price per square footValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
$260.4175th percentile — a quarter of sales cleared thisValleyMLS, 2026 YTD

Even the middle half of the market — ignoring both tails entirely — spans $178.78 to $260.41 per square foot, a 46% difference. Any valuation that multiplies your square footage by a single neighborhood average is producing a number with a $204,000 error bar on a 2,500-square-foot house.

Three things move a Blossomwood home within that range, and none of them is location:

1

Whether the kitchen and baths have been done

The two lowest price-per-foot sales of the year — $94.28 and $132.82 — were both larger homes, of 4,269 and 4,028 square feet. Size did not protect them. Unrenovated space in a 1960s house is counted by buyers at a steep discount, because they are pricing the renovation they will have to run themselves.

2

How the square footage is arranged

A 1,461-square-foot home on Locust Avenue sold at $383.30 per square foot — the highest figure in the neighborhood this year — because small, well-finished, well-located houses in Blossomwood are bid on by more people than large dated ones. Price per foot falls as homes get bigger. It is not a fixed rate.

3

Age of the structure

See the next section. It is the largest single spread in the data.

Section four — for owners of older homes on good lots

The new-construction premium is 60%

When the home was built Sales Median $ / sq ft Median sale price Median size
Built 2000 or later 4 $327.23 $1,299,946 3,876 sq ft
Built 1980–1999 1 $258.11 $569,900 2,208 sq ft
Built before 1980 28 $204.69 $507,312 2,424 sq ft
Year not reported in MLS 5 $217.05 $600,000 2,143 sq ft

Source: ValleyMLS closed sales, Blossomwood, January 1 – September 5, 2026. Grouped by the tax-record year built as reported in MLS.

Four homes built since 2000 closed in Blossomwood this year, at a median $327.23 per square foot against $204.69 for the twenty-eight pre-1980 sales. That is a 60% premium per foot for new construction on the same streets.

Those four sales: a 2019 build on Greenwyche Road at $1,225,270; a 2023 build on Red Oak Road at $865,000; a 2026 build on Kennamer Drive at $1,374,623; and a 2003 build on Harrison Avenue at $1,490,000 — the year's top sale.

Read this number carefully. Four sales is a thin sample and the gap is partly a size and finish effect, not purely an age effect — those homes are also larger and newly finished. It is a signal, not a formula. But the direction is unambiguous and it is worth what it implies.

What this means if you own a 1955 ranch on a large lot

It means your lot may be a larger share of your value than your house is. Blossomwood's median lot is roughly 15,245 square feet — substantially larger than the lots in Twickenham, Old Town or Five Points — and unlike those three neighborhoods, Blossomwood carries no historic-district review. A buyer here can renovate to the studs, add on, or in some cases start over, without filing for a Certificate of Appropriateness or waiting on a monthly commission meeting.

For an owner of a dated house on a good Blossomwood lot, that creates a second buyer entirely: not the family that wants to move in Saturday, but the builder or the renovation-minded buyer pricing the finished house at $327 a foot and working backward. Those two buyers value your property very differently, and only one of them is reachable through a listing written for the other.

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Section five

More than a third of Blossomwood sellers paid a concession

37%Of 2026 sales included a seller concession14 of 38 sales
$7,500Median concession, where one was paidValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
$13,450Largest single concession recordedValleyMLS, 2026 YTD

Fourteen of the thirty-eight Blossomwood sellers this year contributed something at closing — closing costs, a rate buydown, a repair credit. The median contribution was $7,500, and the largest was $13,450.

This is the number most sellers leave out of their own math. A house that closes at $560,000 with a $10,000 concession netted $550,000, and the public record will still say $560,000. When you compare your home to a neighbor's sale, you are comparing to a headline that may have $7,500 to $13,000 sitting behind it.

Budget for it. On a $542,000 Blossomwood home, planning for a concession in the $6,000–$10,000 range is realistic rather than pessimistic, and knowing that in advance is what lets you hold your price when a buyer asks for help with costs.

Section six — the receipts

Every Blossomwood sale of 2026, listed

Most market reports ask you to trust a summary. Here is the whole dataset the summary came from, so you can find the house most like yours.

Every Blossomwood closed sale, January 1 – September 5, 2026. Source: ValleyMLS. “Days on market” is cumulative days on market (CDOM).
Address Built Sq ft Beds / baths Days on market Sold for $ / sq ft
1101 SE Harrison Avenue 2003 4,591 4 / 4 5 $1,490,000 $325
910 SE Kennamer Drive 2026 4,039 5 / 5 0 $1,374,623 $340
1602 Greenwyche Road 2019 3,714 4 / 4 3 $1,225,270 $330
1705 SE Red Oak Road 2023 2,983 4 / 4 73 $865,000 $290
303 Ormond Circle 4,248 5 / 6 84 $815,000 $192
1411 Dale Circle SE 1960 3,068 4 / 3 8 $800,000 $261
1006 Lexington Street SE 1973 4,161 4 / 4 0 $800,000 $192
700 Owens Drive SE 1966 3,166 4 / 4 0 $800,000 $253
508 Owens Drive 3,945 5 / 5 589 $699,900 $177
1600 Olive Drive 1958 3,654 4 / 4 103 $679,000 $186
1100 McClung Avenue 2,058 3 / 2 0 $600,000 $292
1803 Mountainbrook Drive 1973 3,638 5 / 4 108 $599,000 $165
1711 Sun Valley Road 1960 2,056 3 / 3 0 $575,000 $280
1808 Ballard Drive 2,143 3 / 2 95 $570,000 $266
1419 SE California Street 1993 2,208 4 / 4 9 $569,900 $258
1401 Locust Avenue 1952 1,461 2 / 3 4 $560,000 $383
1319 Woodmont Avenue SE 1960 2,504 3 / 3 17 $555,555 $222
1108 Big Cove Road 1960 2,737 4 / 2 136 $555,000 $203
1501 Big Cove Road 1962 4,090 4 / 4 31 $549,000 $134
2224 Briarcliff Road SE 1966 4,028 5 / 4 245 $535,000 $133
1607 Montdale Road 1960 2,541 4 / 3 170 $525,000 $207
418 Owens Drive SE 1963 2,566 4 / 3 59 $515,000 $201
1202 Owens Drive SE 1956 1,886 3 / 2 0 $512,500 $272
1106 Owens Drive 1950 1,936 3 / 2 23 $502,125 $259
908 Fagan Springs Drive SE 1960 2,270 3 / 3 10 $500,000 $220
1413 E Olive Drive SE 1960 3,494 4 / 3 4 $490,000 $140
2223 Briarcliff Road 1966 2,978 4 / 3 41 $490,000 $165
700 Fagan Springs Drive SE 1962 2,252 5 / 3 2 $475,000 $211
124 Dill Street SE 1972 1,967 3 / 3 3 $445,000 $226
1812 Mountainbrook Drive SE 1972 4,269 4 / 4 214 $402,500 $94
1100 W Cleermont Circle 1958 1,797 2 / 2 13 $400,000 $223
1401 Woodmont Avenue SE 1960 1,645 3 / 2 200 $395,000 $240
1203 Governors Drive 1955 2,105 3 / 2 217 $385,000 $183
2110 Colice Road 1964 2,098 4 / 2 97 $365,000 $174
1215 Hermitage Avenue SE 1954 2,261 3 / 3 5 $364,000 $161
1914 Colice Road 1966 1,473 2 / 1 4 $360,000 $244
1707 Mountainbrook Drive SE 1959 2,345 3 / 2 4 $350,000 $149
1110 McClung Avenue 1,419 4 / 2 16 $308,000 $217

Section seven

If you are selling in Blossomwood

Five things this year's data says, in the order they will cost you money.

1

Price to the first fourteen days, not to your ceiling

The homes that held their full original ask were the ones priced where the market already was. “We can always come down” is the single most expensive sentence in this dataset — it cost the sixty-day-plus group a median 9.7%.

2

Do the kitchen and baths, or price as though you did not

The $94-to-$383 per-foot spread is mostly condition. You do not have to renovate. You do have to choose one lane and price honestly inside it. The expensive mistake is unrenovated condition at renovated pricing, which is what most 200-day listings are.

3

Know whether your lot is worth more than your house

Post-2000 construction cleared $327 a square foot here. If you own a dated home on a large Blossomwood lot with no historic review, there is a second buyer for your property and they need to be marketed to deliberately.

4

Budget $6,000–$10,000 for a concession

Thirty-seven percent of this year's sellers paid one, at a median $7,500. Planning for it is what lets you decline to drop your price instead.

5

Understand what you are actually competing against

Blossomwood sits in ZIP 35801, where the broader market has been softening — Redfin recorded a median $440,000 for the three months ending July 2026, down 3.3% year over year, with 42.3% of listings taking a price cut. Blossomwood is outperforming its ZIP. That is an argument for pricing with confidence, not for pricing above the evidence.

Fifteen Blossomwood homes sold for their full original asking price this year. Thirteen of them were under contract inside two weeks.

Section eight

If you are buying in Blossomwood

Where the value is

  • The homes that have sat. Thirteen sales this year closed after sixty-plus days at a median 9.7% under the original ask. Patience is worth real money in this neighborhood, and the listings nobody wants in June are negotiable in September.
  • Larger, dated houses. The two cheapest sales per square foot were both over 3,400 square feet. If you are willing to renovate on your own schedule, square footage in Blossomwood is available well below the $218 median.
  • No historic-district review. Unlike Twickenham, Old Town and Five Points, Blossomwood is not a locally designated historic district. You can renovate the exterior without a Certificate of Appropriateness.

Where you will pay

  • Anything new, and anything already finished. Post-2000 construction cleared a median $327 per square foot. Move-in-ready is the most contested product here.
  • Smaller, well-located, updated houses. The highest price per foot of the year — $383.30 — was a 1,461-square-foot home. Compact and done commands a premium.
  • Speed. Half the neighborhood was under contract within fourteen days. If you are shopping Blossomwood casually, you are shopping the leftovers.

Section nine

What you are actually buying in Blossomwood

Blossomwood sits at the foot of Monte Sano Mountain, south of Huntsville's historic districts, east of the medical district, north of Governors Drive, in ZIP 35801. It is not a subdivision and it is not a historic district — it is an umbrella name that grew organically as Huntsville expanded south and then east through the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Valley MLS lists Mountain Brook, Montdale and Fagan Springs Estates among the recorded subdivisions inside it.

A practical consequence of that. A property search on the word “Blossomwood” will miss inventory, because the MLS files these homes under their individual recorded subdivision names. It is a small thing that costs buyers houses.

The housing stock

The median Blossomwood home that sold this year was built in 1962, and the range ran from 1950 to 2026. In practice that means historic bungalows, mid-century ranchers, basement ranchers, Tudor-influenced cottages and colonials, on gently sloping and occasionally steep tree-lined streets. Median lot size is roughly 15,245 square feet — larger than any of the three historic districts nearby.

What holds value here

  • Blossomwood Elementary. A STEM-focused school and a National Blue Ribbon Lighthouse School, feeding Huntsville Junior High and Huntsville High. School zoning should always be confirmed with Huntsville City Schools for a specific address — aggregator maps are not the district's map.
  • Monte Sano Nature Preserve. More than 1,100 acres and 24-plus miles of trail, effectively at the end of the neighborhood.
  • Burritt on the Mountain. A 167-acre historic estate and museum with seasonal festivals, on the mountain above.
  • The Blossomwood Pool and Blossomwood Park, plus the Terry Hutchens Greenway along Fagan Creek.
  • Proximity that is hard to replicate. Minutes to Huntsville Hospital, roughly fifteen to Research Park and Redstone Arsenal, walking distance to Big Spring Park.
  • No Certificate of Appropriateness. The Blossomwood Valley Civic Association is a civic and advocacy association, not a mandatory HOA with architectural control.
One thing to verify parcel by parcel. Fagan Creek runs through the area, and citywide roughly 29 square miles and over 6,000 developed properties in Huntsville sit within the 100-year floodplain. Flood status is a parcel-level question, not a neighborhood-level one. Check the City of Huntsville flood map or call Engineering at 256-427-5300 for any specific address. Note also that NFIP policies carry a 30-day waiting period, which matters if it surfaces late in a contract.

Section ten

How Blossomwood compares

Price per square foot is the cleanest way to compare neighborhoods that hold very different houses.

Median closed price per square foot, by neighborhood

Median price per square foot by neighborhood, Blossomwood highlighted The Ledges $371 Twickenham & Old Town $340 Blossomwood $219 Five Points $216 Piedmont $207 Jones Valley $184 Median closed $/sq ft of closed sales. Periods differ by neighborhood — see caption.

Source: ValleyMLS closed-sale data. Blossomwood highlighted. Figures are medians of closed sales in each neighborhood for the periods stated in each report.

The rest of the series

This is one of six neighborhood-level reports built from closed MLS sales rather than automated estimates. Each one shows every sale behind its numbers.

  • Twickenham & Old Town — The second-highest price per square foot in Huntsville, and the Certificate of Appropriateness both districts live under.
  • Five Points — The slowest and most negotiable market in this series, and the most affordable way into the historic districts.
  • Jones Valley — The only neighborhood where the median seller got 100% of asking — and the most square footage per dollar anywhere in this series.
  • Piedmont — The fastest contracts in the city — a median 6.5 days — and only ten sales all year.
  • The Ledges — Huntsville's gated golf community at the highest point in the city. Five sales in twelve months.

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What is your Blossomwood home actually worth in this market?

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Questions people ask

Blossomwood market questions, answered

What is the average home price in Blossomwood, Huntsville in 2026?

The median closed sale price in Blossomwood is $542,000 across 38 sales between January 1 and September 5, 2026, according to ValleyMLS closed-sale records. The average was higher at $605,299, because three sales above $1.2 million pulled it up. The median is the more useful figure for a typical Blossomwood homeowner — twenty-two of this year's thirty-eight sales closed below $600,000.

How much is Blossomwood per square foot?

The median is $218.66 per square foot for 2026 closed sales. But the range runs from $94.28 to $383.30, and even the middle half of the market spans $178.78 to $260.41 — a 46% difference. Condition, size and age of the structure move a Blossomwood home within that range far more than street location does. Homes built since 2000 sold at a median $327.23 per square foot; homes built before 1980 sold at $204.69.

How fast do homes sell in Blossomwood?

The median is 14.5 days, and half of all 2026 sales — 19 of 38 — were under contract within 14 days. Fifteen of the thirty-eight sold within a week. But thirteen homes took more than sixty days, and one took 589, which pulls the average up to 68.2 days. Blossomwood is not uniformly fast — it is very fast for correctly priced homes and slow for everything else.

Do Blossomwood homes sell for asking price?

The median sale was 98.8% of the asking price, and 18 of 37 sales closed at or above list. More revealing: homes that went under contract within two weeks sold at a median 100% of their original asking price — thirteen of those nineteen got the full original number — while homes that took more than sixty days sold at a median 90.3% of theirs. The full original price is available in Blossomwood, but essentially only to sellers who price for it on day one.

Is Blossomwood a historic district? Do I need approval to renovate?

No. Blossomwood is not one of Huntsville's four locally designated historic districts — those are Twickenham, Old Town, Five Points and Alabama A&M. Exterior work in Blossomwood does not require a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission. That is a genuine practical advantage over the nearby historic districts, where exterior alterations, additions, new fences and even painting a previously unpainted surface require review. Always confirm your specific parcel's status with the City's Historic Preservation office at 256-650-4779.

Is there an HOA in Blossomwood?

No mandatory neighborhood-wide HOA has been identified. The Blossomwood Valley Civic Association is a civic and advocacy organization rather than a mandatory homeowners association with architectural control and dues enforcement. Individual recorded subdivisions inside the greater Blossomwood area may carry their own covenants, so a title search is the reliable answer for any specific address.

What schools serve Blossomwood?

Blossomwood is generally served by Blossomwood Elementary — a STEM-focused National Blue Ribbon Lighthouse School — feeding Huntsville Junior High and Huntsville High School. Some sources also place part of the area at Monte Sano Elementary. School attendance zones change and aggregator maps are frequently wrong; confirm any specific address directly with Huntsville City Schools before relying on it.

Should I renovate my Blossomwood home before selling, or sell as-is?

The data supports either, but not the middle. Homes built since 2000 cleared a median $327 per square foot while pre-1980 homes cleared $204.69, so finished condition is genuinely rewarded here. At the same time, Blossomwood's large lots and absence of historic review make dated homes attractive to renovation buyers and builders, which is a real second market. The expensive mistake is unrenovated condition at renovated pricing — that is what most of this year's 200-day listings were. Which lane fits your house depends on its lot, position and bones, and that is worth a conversation before you spend anything.

About the author

Ben Nemec — Associate Broker, Team Nemec at Capstone Realty | PLACE

Ben works with buyers and sellers across the greater Huntsville area, with a particular focus on the neighborhoods inside the loop — Blossomwood, Jones Valley, the historic districts, and the mountain communities. He builds these reports from ValleyMLS closed-sale data rather than automated estimates, because a homeowner deciding whether to sell deserves to see the sales the conclusion rests on.

Call or text (256) 361‑5593  ·  bmnemec@gmail.com  ·  huntsvillehomesforyou.com

Sources and method

Sale data. All sale prices, sizes, days on market, list prices, concessions and year-built figures in this report come from ValleyMLS closed-sale records for Blossomwood, covering January 1 – September 5, 2026, exported September 5, 2026. Medians, percentiles and groupings were calculated from those records. Every sale behind every figure is listed in Section six — nothing here is an automated valuation estimate.

What "days on market" means here. Where this report groups sales by time on market it uses cumulative days on market (CDOM), which follows a property across relistings, rather than the days counted against the current listing alone. It is the more honest measure of how long a house was actually available.

Two different list-price comparisons appear in this report, and the difference matters. The headline “share of asking price” figure and the “at or above list” counts compare the sale price to the list price the home carried when it went under contract — the conventional sale-to-list measure. The time-on-market charts and the “gave up” figures compare the sale price to the original list price, so a mid-listing reduction shows up as what it is. Each is labeled where it appears.

Context and background figures are attributed inline where used. Principal outside sources:

What this report does not claim. Neighborhood boundaries in Huntsville are frequently informal and different sources draw them differently. School zoning, flood zone, historic-district status and any covenant or HOA obligation are parcel-level questions and must be confirmed for a specific address with Huntsville City Schools, City Engineering, the Historic Preservation office and a title search respectively. Nothing here is a substitute for that.

Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. This report is not an appraisal. Team Nemec at Capstone Realty | PLACE. Equal Housing Opportunity.

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