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Blossomwood Home Prices in 2026: A Huntsville Neighborhood Market Report
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Section five
More than a third of Blossomwood sellers paid a concession
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.
| 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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
Not an automated estimate. Ben will look at your specific house against the Blossomwood sales in this report — condition, size, position, what sold near you and what it really netted — and come back with a defensible number and the reasoning behind it. If the answer is “now is not your moment,” he will tell you that too.
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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:
- Redfin ZIP 35801 housing market data — three months ending July 2026
- City of Huntsville Historic Preservation Commission — historic district designation and Certificate of Appropriateness requirements
- City of Huntsville flood information and the City flood map
- Valley MLS Blossomwood community information — recorded subdivisions within greater Blossomwood, school recognition
- Homes.com Blossomwood neighborhood guide — median lot size estimate (15,245 sq ft)
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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