Market snapshot
Highland Heights sold at a median of $454,728 in May 2026, up 2.1% year over year, per Redfin’s city tracker. The same source’s trend page put the median at $360,000 in November 2025, down 30.8% year over year, with homes taking 36 days to sell against 28 days a year earlier, and 12 homes sold that month against 5 the year before.
Is Highland Heights, OH a buyer’s or seller’s market right now? Redfin rates the market very competitive, with homes typically selling near list price and going pending within two to five weeks depending on the month. Because monthly volume is small, that read can flip between snapshots, so current inventory matters more here than the trailing year-over-year percentage.
Highland Heights vs. neighboring suburbs
The suburbs below are the direct cross-shop set for most Highland Heights buyers: two share its school district, two sit immediately adjacent with their own districts.
| City | Median sale price | Change vs. year earlier | Median days on market | Effective property tax rate | School district |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highland Heights | $454,728 (May 2026) | up 2.1% | 36 days (Nov 2025) | 2.30% | Mayfield City (5-Star, 2024) |
| Mayfield Village | not separately published at reliable sample size | not available | not available | 2.30% | Mayfield City (5-Star, 2024) |
| Mayfield Heights | $242,500 (Mar 2026) | up 5.0% | 57 days (Jan 2026) | 2.49% | Mayfield City (5-Star, 2024) |
| Richmond Heights | $211,000 (Sep 2025) | down 3.9% | 44 days | 2.93% | Richmond Heights Local Schools |
| Lyndhurst | $252,000 (3 mo. to May 2026) | down 0.55% | 15 days | 2.91% | South Euclid-Lyndhurst City Schools |
Source for prices and days on market: Redfin city-level trackers for each suburb listed. Source for tax rates: LP Property Group’s Cuyahoga County rate compilation, chosen because it applies one consistent method across all five cities.
Richmond Heights and Lyndhurst carry the two highest effective tax rates in this set, both above 2.9%, which narrows their price advantage over Highland Heights once carrying cost enters the comparison.
Cost to own
Highland Heights levies a 2% municipal income tax, collected through the Regional Income Tax Agency. On real estate, the city’s tax page states a voted rate of 110.75 mills against an effective rate of 74.09 mills, applied to an assessed value equal to 35% of market value.
| Recipient | Share of the tax bill | Approximate mills |
|---|---|---|
| Mayfield City School District | 64.2% | 47.56 |
| Cuyahoga County | 27.0% | 20.00 |
| City of Highland Heights | 5.4% | 4.00 |
| Cuyahoga County Public Library | 3.4% | 2.52 |
Mill figures are calculated from the percentage allocation the city publishes, applied to its stated 74.09-mill effective rate. Two of every three tax dollars collected in Highland Heights fund Mayfield City Schools, more than the county, city, and library shares combined.
How does Highland Heights property tax compare to neighboring suburbs? At roughly 2.30% effective, Highland Heights sits below Richmond Heights (2.93%) and Lyndhurst (2.91%) but above Mayfield Heights (2.49%), using the same compiled source for all four.
Schools
Mayfield City Schools earned a 5-Star rating on the 2024 Ohio State Report Card, the district’s own announcement page states.
| Measure | Millridge Elementary | Mayfield City SD | Ohio state average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5th-grade science proficiency | 84.2% | 81.7% | 63.4% |
| Math proficiency | 81% | not published at school level | 54% |
| Reading proficiency | 83% | not published at school level | 60% |
| Statewide elementary rank | Top 20% (92.7th percentile) | not applicable | by definition, median |
Science and proficiency-rank figures: SchoolDigger, drawing on Ohio Department of Education and NCES data. Math and reading figures: Public School Review. Millridge’s science and math proficiency both run roughly 20 to 30 points above the state average, the widest gap of any subject reported at the school level.
Highland Heights and Richmond Heights share the 44143 ZIP code, but Richmond Heights runs its own district, separate from Mayfield City Schools, so ZIP code alone does not confirm which district a specific address feeds.
Do all Highland Heights ZIP codes feed into Mayfield City Schools? Not automatically. Because Highland Heights and Richmond Heights share 44143, confirm the assigned district for a specific address with Mayfield City Schools or the Cuyahoga County Auditor rather than assuming from the ZIP code.
For investors
Owner-occupied units make up 95.8% of Highland Heights housing, per Census American Community Survey data reported by Data USA, leaving a thin pool of rental comparables. City council adopted Ordinance 1-2025, a moratorium on building permits, certificates of occupancy, and rental licenses, in 2025. Its exact scope and whether it has since lapsed weren’t confirmable from the public legislation index alone, so anyone planning to buy and lease a home here should confirm current status with the city’s building department before assuming a rental license is available.
About two miles east, on the former Richmond Town Square Mall site, the Belle Oaks Marketplace redevelopment opened its first tenant, a Meijer supercenter, on May 8, 2025, and the Port of Cleveland approved $55 million in bonds for the project’s apartment phases in December 2025, per Crain’s Cleveland Business and WKYC. Roughly 800 apartments and new retail arriving on Highland Heights’ eastern border over the next two years is a plausible driver of nearby comparable sales that predates almost every current listing.
HOA fee data for Highland Heights’ golf-course-adjacent subdivisions was not available in any public record located during this research pass; treat it as an open item to confirm directly with a listing agent or HOA management company before budgeting.
Can I rent out a home I buy in Highland Heights, or are there restrictions? The city passed a rental-license moratorium in 2025. Treat it as active until the building department confirms otherwise, since the public ordinance index does not show a repeal on file.
For sellers
The market reads as competitive on paper, but low monthly volume means comparable-sale support can be thin for atypical properties, a large golf-course lot or a heavily updated colonial may not have three true comps within the past six months inside city limits alone. Pulling comps from Mayfield Heights or Lyndhurst as a supplement, and disclosing that choice to a buyer’s appraiser up front, avoids a financing delay late in escrow.
Getting around
Highland Heights sits along I-271 and I-90 northeast of downtown Cleveland. The average commute for residents is 21 minutes, per Census ACS data reported by Data USA, shorter than most outer Cleveland suburbs on the same interstate corridor.
Neighborhoods
Redfin listings name Highland Woods and Canterbury Estates among the city’s established single-family subdivisions, both built out primarily with mature tree cover. The median home in Highland Heights was built in 1981.
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