Housing in Muscatine
Muscatine's housing market runs genuinely affordable, with a real, disclosed price spread and one-bedroom rent running well below national benchmarks worth understanding directly before setting a budget.
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Learn moreA real, fast year-over-year price gain
Redfin's median sale price ran $173,000 for the three months through June 2026, up a real, fast 15.6% year-over-year -- Muscatine's primary housing figure in this record (base record).
A real, disclosed spread against list-price data
Movoto separately cited a notably higher $332,000 median list price for June 2026 -- not a closed-sale figure, and likely reflecting a smaller or differently-composed sample of active listings, disclosed rather than reconciled to one number (base record).
Genuinely affordable one-bedroom rent
One-bedroom rent ran approximately $892-$913/month across sources reviewed this pass (January-February 2026), genuinely affordable relative to national and many other Iowa benchmarks (base record).
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Key takeaways
- Muscatine's median sale price ran $173,000 for the three months through June 2026, up 15.6% YoY.
- A real, disclosed spread runs up to $332,000 for Movoto's median list price the same period.
- One-bedroom rent ran approximately $892-$913/month, genuinely affordable.
- Confirm current, address-specific listings directly given this real, disclosed price spread.
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