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Five Points Home Prices in 2026: A Huntsville Neighborhood Market Report
Team Nemec · 2026 Neighborhood Market Report
Five Points Home Prices in 2026
Thirty-four homes sold in Five Points this year — the slowest-moving market of any Huntsville neighborhood we measured, and the hardest one in which to hold an asking price. And the houses that sold fastest, at the highest prices, were the oldest ones.
The short answer
Five Points' median closed sale price in 2026 is $318,600 across 34 sales between January 1 and September 5, at a median of $215.74 per square foot. The median home was 1,510 square feet, and the median year built among the thirty of thirty-four sales that report one was 1951–52. It is the most affordable entry into Huntsville's historic inside-the-loop market by a wide margin.
It is also the slowest market of the six neighborhoods in this series, and the hardest one in which to get your asking price. The median home took 62 days to go under contract. More than half took longer than sixty. Eleven of thirty-four took longer than a hundred. And only four of thirty-three sellers got their asking price.
Then there is the finding almost nobody expects. The six homes built since 2015 took a median 146 days to sell — more than twice as long as the twenty-one homes built before 1960. In Five Points, new construction is the hardest product to move.
$318,600Median closed sale price across 34 salesValleyMLS, Jan 1 – Sep 5, 2026
$215.74Median price per square foot of finished spaceValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
62 daysMedian days to contract — the slowest in this seriesValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
4 of 33Sellers who got their asking priceThe lowest share of the six neighborhoods
18 of 34Homes that took more than 60 days to go under contractValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
146 daysMedian time to sell for homes built since 2015Against 63 days for homes built before 1960
Section one
The widest range of house in Huntsville
Five Points sales this year ran from $110,000 to $789,000, on homes from 552 to 3,573 square feet, built between 1900 and 2024.
Closed sale prices, Five Points, 2026 year to date
Source: ValleyMLS closed-sale data, January 1 – September 5, 2026. n = 34.
That is a hundred and twenty-four years of building and a seven-to-one price range inside one neighborhood. It is the direct legacy of how Five Points was made: platted in 1892 on a grid of narrow lots and rear service alleys, filled in with Victorian cottages, then 1920s bungalows, then 1950s ranches built across multiple lots, and now with new infill construction going up on whatever was left.
What that means for your comparables. In a neighborhood this varied, “a house sold on my street for $450,000” carries very little information. A 915-square-foot 1953 cottage and a 3,573-square-foot 2018 build are both Five Points sales, and they behave nothing alike. This report shows all thirty-four so you can find the ones that actually resemble your house.
$110,000Lowest closed sale of 2026410 O’Shaughnessy Avenue NE
$318,600Median — the middle of 34 salesValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
$789,000Highest closed sale — a 1925 home, sold in 2 days1122 Beirne Avenue
Section two — the finding worth the whole report
New construction is the slowest thing to sell here
This is the opposite of what happens in every other neighborhood in this series, and it is not close.
| When the home was built | Sales | Median days on market | Median sale price | Median $ / sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built 2015 or later | 6 | 146 days | $462,500 | $215 |
| Built before 1960 | 21 | 63 days | $243,000 | $212 |
Source: ValleyMLS closed sales, Five Points, January 1 – September 5, 2026. Grouped by tax-record year built as reported in MLS. Days on market is cumulative (CDOM).
Look at the price per square foot in that table. $215 against $212 — effectively identical. New construction in Five Points is not commanding a premium per foot over houses seventy years older. It is simply taking more than twice as long to find a buyer.
The individual outcomes are harder still:
| Home | Built | Days on market | Originally asked | Sold for | % of original |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 505 O'Shaughnessy Avenue | 2018 | 356 | $765,000 | $580,000 | 75.8% |
| 1205 Stevens Avenue NE | 2024 | 342 | $479,900 | $350,000 | 72.9% |
| 508 Schiffman Street | 2020 | 211 | $500,000 | $455,000 | 91.0% |
| 1109 Rison Avenue | 2023 | 80 | $525,000 | $470,000 | 89.5% |
Source: ValleyMLS closed-sale records, 2026 YTD.
A 2018 home spent 356 days on the market and gave up $185,000. A home built in 2024 spent 342 days and gave up $129,900. Those are the two longest marketing times in the neighborhood this year, and the largest give-ups in absolute dollars.
In percentage terms the picture is more mixed, and it is worth being straight about it: the single worst outcome of the year was a 1940 home on Humes Avenue that closed at 65.8% of its original ask, after a reduction from $189,900 to $125,000, and a 1930 home on O’Shaughnessy came in at 72.9%. Old houses in poor condition get punished here too. What the new builds show is not that they sell badly — it is that they sell slowly. A median of 146 days against 63.
Meanwhile the top sale of the year — $789,000 on Beirne Avenue — was a home built in 1925, and it went under contract in two days at 99.3% of asking.
The most likely explanation, offered as a reading rather than a proof. People choose Five Points for Five Points — the 1892 grid, the porches, the alleys, the fact that it does not look like anywhere else in Huntsville. A buyer willing to accept a new house is generally also willing to consider a new house somewhere with a bigger lot and a newer school, and Huntsville has a great deal of that. So a new infill home here competes on a much wider field, while a 1925 bungalow competes on a field of about eight. Six sales is a small sample and this should not be read as a law. But the direction is consistent and the cost of ignoring it was six figures for two sellers this year.
Section three
This is a patient market, and it punishes optimism
How far below the original asking price homes sold, by time on market
Source: ValleyMLS, Five Points closed sales, 2026 YTD. Compares final sale price to the original list price. Bands contain 7, 8 and 18 sales. n = 33 with a reported original list price.
18 of 34Took more than 60 days to go under contractValleyMLS, 2026 YTD
11 of 34Took more than 100 daysSeven took more than 180
4 of 33Sold at or above the asking price — 12%The lowest share in this series
The pattern is the same one every neighborhood in this study produces, but Five Points arrives at it from a different starting point. Elsewhere — Blossomwood, Jones Valley, the historic districts — homes that sold in the first two weeks got 100% of their original ask. Here, even the fast movers got 98.9%. The homes that passed sixty days closed at a median 86.2%.
Three homes gave up more than a quarter of their opening price. 1415 Humes Avenue NE, an 855-square-foot 1940 home, opened at $189,900, was reduced to $125,000, and closed there — 65.8% of its original ask, the year's worst outcome. 412 O'Shaughnessy Avenue NE, from 1930, opened at $295,000 and closed at $215,000 after 199 days. And 1205 Stevens Avenue NE, built in 2024, opened at $479,900 and closed at $350,000 after 342 days.
What a 62-day median actually means for your plans. It means that if you list in March expecting to be out by May, the base case is that you are not. Budget for two months of carrying cost before a contract, plus thirty to forty-five days to close. A Five Points seller who plans for a Blossomwood timeline — where the median is fourteen and a half days — is going to be making a price decision under pressure in week nine. That is exactly the decision that produces an 86% outcome.
Section four — the receipts
Every Five Points sale of 2026, listed
Thirty-four sales, sorted by price. Find the one that looks like your house.
| Address | Built | Sq ft | Beds / baths | Days on market | Sold for | $ / sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1122 Beirne Avenue | 1925 | 2,809 | 4 / 3 | 2 | $789,000 | $281 |
| 505 O'Shaughnessy Avenue | 2018 | 3,573 | 3 / 3 | 356 | $580,000 | $162 |
| 1401 Wellman Avenue NE | 2008 | 2,587 | 3 / 3 | 21 | $515,000 | $199 |
| 809 Ward Avenue NE | 1920 | 2,001 | 2 / 2 | 63 | $510,000 | $255 |
| 801 Pratt Avenue NE | — | 1,348 | 2 / 1 | 14 | $495,000 | $367 |
| 1733 Beirne Avenue NE | 2019 | 2,312 | 3 / 3 | 49 | $485,000 | $210 |
| 720 Stevens Avenue | 1900 | 1,381 | 3 / 2 | 61 | $485,000 | $351 |
| 1109 Rison Avenue | 2023 | 2,141 | 3 / 3 | 80 | $470,000 | $220 |
| 508 Schiffman Street | 2020 | 1,873 | 3 / 3 | 211 | $455,000 | $243 |
| 1318 Humes Avenue NE | 2017 | 1,610 | 3 / 2 | 59 | $445,000 | $276 |
| 1507 Pratt Avenue NE | 1927 | 1,603 | 3 / 2 | 4 | $430,000 | $268 |
| 803 McCullough Avenue | 1930 | 1,519 | 2 / 1 | 140 | $415,000 | $273 |
| 1016 O'Shaughnessy Avenue NE | — | 1,639 | 3 / 2 | 149 | $412,000 | $251 |
| 1106 Rison Avenue NE | 2008 | 1,502 | 3 / 2 | 53 | $380,000 | $253 |
| 1205 Stevens Avenue NE | 2024 | 1,739 | 3 / 3 | 342 | $350,000 | $201 |
| 1029 Rison Avenue NE | 1945 | 1,706 | 3 / 3 | 219 | $330,000 | $193 |
| 514 Stevens Avenue NE | 1900 | 1,930 | 3 / 2 | 197 | $322,200 | $167 |
| 1426 Rison Avenue | 1960 | 1,545 | 3 / 2 | 9 | $315,000 | $204 |
| 1602 Rison Avenue NE | 1953 | 1,422 | 3 / 2 | 37 | $312,500 | $220 |
| 1603 Stevens Avenue NE | 1956 | 1,209 | 3 / 1 | 0 | $275,000 | $227 |
| 507 Schiffman Street | 1955 | 1,068 | 3 / 2 | 10 | $275,000 | $257 |
| 1622 Beirne Avenue | — | 1,750 | 3 / 3 | 204 | $253,900 | $145 |
| 1608 Humes Avenue | 1950 | 1,032 | 3 / 1 | 20 | $243,000 | $235 |
| 1317 Stevens Avenue | 1953 | 915 | 2 / 1 | 90 | $220,000 | $240 |
| 412 O'Shaughnessy Avenue NE | 1930 | 1,400 | 3 / 2 | 199 | $215,000 | $154 |
| 1314 Stevens Avenue NE | — | 865 | 2 / 1 | 4 | $195,000 | $225 |
| 1120 O'Shaughnessy Avenue | 1940 | 1,168 | 1 / 2 | 97 | $175,000 | $150 |
| 223 Ward Avenue NE | 1930 | 750 | 2 / 1 | 177 | $145,000 | $193 |
| 1019 Stevens Avenue NE | 1956 | 1,600 | 3 / 2 | 51 | $140,000 | $88 |
| 607 Stevens Avenue | 1900 | 1,484 | 2 / 1 | 14 | $139,150 | $94 |
| 1226 Rison Avenue NE | 1953 | 802 | 2 / 1 | 56 | $130,000 | $162 |
| 1415 Humes Avenue NE | 1940 | 855 | 1 / 1 | 88 | $125,000 | $146 |
| 606 Schiffman Street NE | 1937 | 552 | 1 / 1 | 144 | $117,000 | $212 |
| 410 O'Shaughnessy Avenue NE | 1930 | 1,176 | 3 / 2 | 91 | $110,000 | $94 |
Section five — the trap
The historic district does not cover all of Five Points
This is the single most important practical fact in this report, and it is one that catches sellers, buyers and even agents.
Five Points became a locally designated historic district on October 28, 1999, and was listed on the National Register on August 20, 2012. But the Alabama Historical Association's own marker for the district states plainly that the historic district does not encompass the entire Five Points area.
Two houses a block apart can carry completely different obligations. If your parcel is inside the designated boundary, exterior work — alterations, additions, fences, walls, pools, solar collectors, demolition, even painting a previously unpainted surface — requires a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Huntsville Historic Preservation Commission before it can be done. If your parcel is outside it, none of that applies. The neighborhood name tells you nothing about which side you are on.
Why it matters at the worst possible moment: full Commission review requires an application by the last Monday of the month for a meeting on the second Monday of the next, and a representative must attend or the request is denied. If a buyer's inspector flags rotted siding or a window that needs replacing rather than reglazing, and your house is inside the boundary, you may not be able to cure it within a normal contract period.
Find out before you list. The authority is the City of Huntsville's Historic Home Locator Map, or the Historic Preservation Planner at 256-650-4779. Do not rely on a real estate website's neighborhood polygon — those are drawn for search results, not for permitting.
One more title-level item worth a look. Five Points was platted with rear service alleys behind its narrow lots — a genuinely distinctive physical feature of the 1892 grid, and one that can carry easements or access rights. Whether any particular alley does is a question for a title search on your specific parcel, not something any neighborhood report can answer.
Section six
If you are selling in Five Points
1
Plan for two months, not two weeks
The median is 62 days to contract and eighteen of thirty-four took longer than that. Building your plan around a fast sale is how you end up cutting price in week nine. Price for the market you actually have and the timeline becomes survivable.
2
Find out whether you are inside the historic district
Before you list, not after an inspection. If you are inside it, get any exterior repair into the Commission's calendar early. If you are outside it, that is a genuine selling point worth stating.
3
If your house is new, price it against Huntsville, not against Five Points
Six homes built since 2015 took a median 146 days. Two of them gave up $185,000 and $129,900. A new house here is competing with new houses across the whole city, and the buyer who wants a 1925 porch is not your buyer.
4
If your house is old, lead with what it is
The top sale of the year was a 1925 home that went in two days at 99.3% of asking. Period character is the product here and it outperformed everything newer. Restore and document rather than modernizing away the reason someone wants it.
5
Expect to contribute at closing
Twelve of the thirty-three sales that report a concession figure included one, at a median $5,000 and up to $13,000. Combined with a 96.2% median sale-to-list, the realistic net is several points below your asking price. Build it in.
The most expensive house sold in Five Points this year was built in 1925 and took two days. The newest one took 342 and gave up $129,900.
Section seven
If you are buying in Five Points
What is working in your favor
- This is among the most negotiable markets in the city. Only four of thirty-three sellers got their asking price — the lowest share of the six neighborhoods in this series. Eighteen homes sat past sixty days. If you are patient and specific, Five Points rewards you more than any neighborhood in this series.
- It is the affordable way into historic Huntsville. A median of $318,600 against $875,000 in Twickenham and Old Town, in a neighborhood a mile from downtown with the same walkability and much of the same character.
- New construction is discounted, not premium. If you want a new house and you want this neighborhood, the data says you can have both without paying up for it.
What to go in knowing
- Check the historic district boundary before you write an offer — not the neighborhood, the parcel. It determines whether your renovation plans need Commission approval.
- The best old houses still go fast. The top sale went in two days. Negotiating room exists on the homes that were mispriced, not on the ones that were not.
- Inspect thoroughly. Twenty-one of this year's thirty-four sales were homes built before 1960 and several date to 1900. This report deliberately makes no claim about what defects these houses carry — that is an inspector's job, and here it is a serious one.
Section eight
What Five Points is, and how it got that way
Five Points is Huntsville's first subdivision, and it exists because of a streetcar.
In 1892, the Northwestern Land Association — four men from South Dakota — platted the East Huntsville Addition about a mile east of downtown. The east-west avenues carry the names of the company's directors: William S. Wells, Willard I. Wellman, Tracy Wilder Pratt and James Ward. Eustis, Randolph and Clinton kept names they already had. The north-south streets were numbered until a city ordinance renamed them in 1958.
The Alabama Historical Association marker calls it Huntsville's first subdivision, made feasible by the construction of a streetcar line — and that is the causal fact. The streetcar let working people live beyond walking distance of their jobs, which is what made a neighborhood a mile out viable at all. In July 1899, Tracy Pratt put $99,700 of the Huntsville Railway, Light & Power Company's $100,000 capitalization into the venture. Five Points was annexed into Huntsville in 1925.
The physical fabric
The marker describes the district as preserving over 100 years of vernacular domestic architecture on a 19th-century grid of broad parallel streets, narrow lots and rear service alleys. That grid is the neighborhood's most distinctive and most verifiable physical feature, and it is why Five Points feels different from anywhere else in the city.
The styles arrived in layers: modest one- and two-story Victorian homes with decorative woodwork from the late 1890s, 1920s bungalows with low rooflines, deep front porches and front dormers, then 1950s ranches built across multiple lots — and now infill. The Vaught House at 701 Ward Avenue was individually listed on the National Register in 1981, before the district existed.
Location and amenities
- About one mile east of downtown Huntsville, converging where Holmes Avenue, Pratt Avenue, California Street and Andrew Jackson Way meet.
- Lewter Park, Beirne Avenue Park and Big Spring Park nearby.
- Bordered by I-565 — convenient, and worth listening for on a specific street.
- The Five Points Historic District Association meets at Doctrinal Bible Church, 1215 Russell Street.
Two things to verify for your address specifically. School zoning — confirm with Huntsville City Schools rather than an aggregator map. Flood status — citywide, roughly 29 square miles and more than 6,000 developed properties in Huntsville sit in the 100-year floodplain. Use the City flood map or call Engineering at 256-427-5300.
Section ten
How Five Points 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. Five Points 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.
- Blossomwood — Mid-century houses on big lots at the foot of Monte Sano, with no historic review. Half sold within two weeks.
- 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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Questions people ask
Five Points market questions, answered
What is the average home price in Five Points, Huntsville in 2026?
The median closed sale price is $318,600 across 34 sales between January 1 and September 5, 2026, per ValleyMLS closed-sale records, at a median of $215.74 per square foot. The average was $330,993. Sales ranged from $110,000 to $789,000 on homes from 552 to 3,573 square feet, so the median describes the middle of an unusually wide range.
How long do homes take to sell in Five Points?
A median of 62 days — the slowest of the six Huntsville neighborhoods in this series. Eighteen of the thirty-four 2026 sales took more than sixty days, eleven took more than a hundred, and seven took more than a hundred and eighty. For comparison, Blossomwood's median was 14.5 days. A Five Points seller should plan for roughly two months to contract before adding closing time.
Do Five Points homes sell for asking price?
Rarely. Only four of thirty-three sales closed at or above the asking price — about 12%, the lowest share of any neighborhood in this series. The median sale was 96.2% of list. Homes that went under contract within two weeks got 98.9% of their original asking price; homes that passed sixty days got a median 86.2%. Two homes gave up more than a quarter of their opening price.
Is new construction a good investment in Five Points?
The 2026 data is a caution. The six homes built since 2015 took a median 146 days to sell, against 63 days for the twenty-one homes built before 1960 — and they sold at essentially the same price per square foot ($215 versus $212). Two of them gave up $185,000 and $129,900 from their original asking prices, the largest give-ups in absolute dollars of any 2026 sale here. Meanwhile the year's highest sale, $789,000, was a 1925 home that went under contract in two days. Six sales is a small sample and this is not a law, but the direction is consistent: buyers appear to be choosing Five Points for its period character, and a new house here competes against new houses across the whole city.
Is my Five Points home in the historic district?
Possibly not — and you should check rather than assume. The Alabama Historical Association marker for the district states explicitly that the historic district does not encompass the entire Five Points area. Two houses a block apart can carry completely different obligations: inside the boundary, exterior work requires a Certificate of Appropriateness from the Huntsville Historic Preservation Commission; outside it, no such requirement applies. The authority is the City of Huntsville's Historic Home Locator Map or the Historic Preservation Planner at 256-650-4779. A real estate website's neighborhood polygon is not a permitting boundary.
What kind of homes are in Five Points?
Layers of them. The neighborhood was platted in 1892 on a grid of narrow lots with rear service alleys, and filled in over more than a century: late-1890s Victorian cottages with decorative woodwork, 1920s Craftsman bungalows with deep porches and front dormers, 1950s ranches built across multiple lots, and recent infill construction. The 2026 sales included homes built in 1900 and in 2024, with a median size of 1,510 square feet and a median year built of 1951–52 among the thirty sales that report one.
Why is Five Points cheaper than Twickenham or Old Town?
Different housing stock and different history. Five Points was developed from 1892 as a streetcar suburb for working people — modest vernacular homes on narrow lots — while Twickenham grew from 1809 as the town's most prominent addresses and holds the densest concentration of antebellum homes in Alabama. The 2026 medians reflect that: $318,600 in Five Points against $875,000 in Twickenham and Old Town, and $215.74 per square foot against $339.58. Five Points is the affordable way into historic Huntsville, a mile from downtown, with much of the same walkability.
Should I sell my Five Points home now?
The honest answer is that it depends more on your house than on the market. This is a slow, negotiable neighborhood — a 62-day median and only 12% of sellers getting asking price — but old, characterful homes in good condition still sold quickly and at full price this year, including the year's top sale at $789,000 in two days. What predicts your outcome here is period character, condition and a realistic opening number, not timing. Working out where your specific house sits among these thirty-four sales is worth a conversation before you list.
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.
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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 Five Points, 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
- City of Huntsville historical marker: Five Points Historic District — designation dates, and the statement that the district does not cover the whole neighborhood
- Five Points Historic District: 1892 beginnings — Northwestern Land Association, street naming, streetcar history
- City of Huntsville Historic Home Locator Map — the authoritative district boundary
- City of Huntsville historic preservation application requirements — COA scope and meeting calendar
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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