Why Four Sources Show Four Different Median Prices
Redfin’s city-level housing market page reports a median sale price of $312,000 for August 2025, a drop of 22.1% from the year before, with homes taking about 39 days to sell after drawing roughly two offers apiece.Redfin A separate Redfin data feed, the estimate widget attached to individual listing pages and last updated in June 2026, shows a $412,000 median with a 100% sale-to-list ratio and a 29-day average.Redfin Ridley, a brokerage-technology platform, publishes $382,500 for 2026 with prices up 24.7% year over year and 1.5 months of supply.Ridley Movoto lists a $469,000 median for active listings in June 2026, with a 69-day median time on market.Movoto
| Source | Metric | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redfin (city page) | Median sale price | $312,000 | Aug 2025 |
| Redfin (listing widget) | Median sale price | $412,000 | Last updated Jun 2026 |
| Ridley | Median sale price | $382,500 | 2026 |
| Movoto | Median list price | $469,000 | Jun 2026 |
For budgeting, the practical range to work from is the $380,000 to $420,000 band where three of the four figures cluster once list-price inflation is set aside.
Is Reisterstown a buyer’s or seller’s market right now? By the one published months-of-supply figure, 1.5 months, well under the 5- to 6-month threshold usually cited for a balanced market, this reads as a seller’s market: homes selling near or above asking and inventory tight enough that well-priced listings move quickly.Ridley
What Baltimore County Property Tax Costs on a $400,000 Home
None of the major Reisterstown profiles states the actual tax rate. Baltimore County’s real property tax rate is $1.10 per $100 of assessed value for the current taxable year.Baltimore County Government Maryland’s state property tax adds $0.112 per $100 on top of that, a rate set through the county tax-rate tables the state legislature publishes each year.Maryland Department of Legislative Services
| Assessed value | County tax (1.10%) | State tax (0.112%) | Estimated annual total |
|---|---|---|---|
| $250,000 | $2,750 | $280 | $3,030 |
| $350,000 | $3,850 | $392 | $4,242 |
| $400,000 | $4,400 | $448 | $4,848 |
| $600,000 | $6,600 | $672 | $7,272 |
Assessed value in Maryland is set by the state, not the sale price, and typically runs below current market value until a reassessment catches up, so a $400,000 purchase this year may carry a lower bill than the table shows in its first cycle.
What’s the real tax bill on a $400,000 house in Reisterstown? Around $4,848 a year at full assessed value: $4,400 to Baltimore County and $448 to the state, before any homestead credit is applied.
Historic Core vs. the I-795 Corridor
Reisterstown’s housing stock splits along one real fault line: older homes clustered near the historic Main Street core, and newer subdivisions built out toward Interstate 795 as land near the center ran out. A brick estate in the Chestnut Woods community, for instance, was listed in June 2026 with a newly installed 50-year roof, put in that same month, an active-listing detail rather than a decades-old fact.Redfin
Renting Out a Home in Reisterstown: The Investor Numbers
Reisterstown’s median rent for February 2026, across all bedroom counts and property types, was $1,649, a figure calculated on a rolling 30-day basis from active listings.Zumper A separate tracker using leased-unit data from larger apartment communities puts the average closer to $1,586.RentCafe Against the roughly $380,000 to $420,000 price band above, that puts the rough gross rent-to-price ratio somewhere between 0.39% and 0.43% monthly, below the 0.7%+ that investors chasing cash flow generally look for, which points this market toward appreciation-driven holds over cash-flow rentals.
| Bedroom count | Median rent | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom | $1,354 | Rentometer |
| 2 bedroom | $1,672 | Rentometer |
| 3 bedroom | $2,203 | Rentometer |
None of the sources above publish a Reisterstown-specific cap rate or vacancy figure, so treat rent-to-price as a screening ratio, not a full underwriting model.
Does Reisterstown make sense as a rental investment? On the numbers available, better suited to buy-and-hold appreciation plays than to cash-flow-driven rentals: rent-to-price sits below the 0.7% monthly threshold many investors target, though no published source breaks out yield by specific street or subdivision.
Who Reisterstown Fits, and Who Should Keep Looking
- Fits drivers who want space over walkability. Reisterstown carries a Walk Score of 37, categorized as minimally walkable, meaning most daily errands require a car.Redfin
- Fits buyers comparing against pricier inner-Baltimore-County suburbs who want more house for the money and can tolerate a longer highway commute in exchange.
- Does not fit renters or buyers who need transit-first living or a dense, walkable town center as a daily default.
Reisterstown’s Population Depends on Which Map You Use
The 2020 Census counted 26,822 people within the Reisterstown census-designated place. A 2026 projection from a private demographic estimator puts the figure at 28,178, built off a 0.49% annual growth assumption rather than a fresh count.World Population Review Numbers above 30,000 circulating elsewhere typically reflect a wider ZIP-code aggregate rather than the official CDP boundary, and the two are not measuring the same area.
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