Median price tells you what the middle home sold for. Price per square foot tells you what the market is paying for space, which is the number that lets you compare a 1,600 square foot home in Redmond against a 2,400 square foot home in Bend without fooling yourself. Here is where every Central Oregon market stands, from June 2026 closings, verified July 9, 2026 against our live MLS database.

The June 2026 numbers by market

Sunriver: $456 per square foot
Sisters: $417
Bend: $408
Central Oregon overall: $367
Redmond: $312
Madras: $264
La Pine: $260
Prineville: $257

Single-family closings inside each market's boundaries. In the smaller markets, Sisters closed 7 homes in June, Sunriver 11, Madras 12, and La Pine 6, so treat their single-month figures as markers rather than trends.

The trend is choppier than you think

Bend's June closings priced at $402 per square foot in 2023, $423 in 2024, $375 in 2025, and $408 in 2026. That is not a smooth line, and the swings are mostly mix: which neighborhoods and which sizes of home happened to close each June. Redmond tells the opposite story, printing $309, $304, $316, and $312 across the same four Junes, a $12 band for four straight years. Redmond buyers in 2026 are paying what 2023 buyers paid per foot, which makes it the region's most stable per-foot market.

The Bend gap: same city, $261 apart

June 2026 closings with at least five sales per community, price per square foot:

Tetherow: $586 (6 sales)
NorthWest Crossing: $571 (16 sales)
Black Butte Ranch: $508 (7 sales)
Sunriver: $430 (7 sales inside the resort boundary)
Boyd Acres: $420 (5 sales)
Old Farm District: $404 (8 sales)
Three Rivers: $402 (10 sales)
Eagle Crest: $390 (9 sales)
Southwest Bend: $382 (9 sales)
Larkspur: $364 (9 sales)
Mountain View: $325 (6 sales)

The spread from Mountain View to Tetherow is $261 per square foot. On a 2,000 square foot home, that is a $522,000 difference for the same floor area, which is why a citywide average tells you almost nothing about a specific address.

What price per square foot is good for

Cross-market comparison, mostly. A 1,600 square foot home in Redmond at $312 per foot is $499,000. The same footprint in Bend at $408 is $653,000, a 30.8% premium per foot for the Bend address. That is the real cost of the zip code, isolated from house size.

Where it misleads

Per-foot pricing ignores everything that is not interior square footage. Lot size, shop buildings, ADUs, view corridors, and condition all move value without moving the denominator. Small homes also print high per-foot numbers because kitchens and bathrooms, the expensive rooms, make up more of their area. Use price per square foot to frame a market, then price the specific home against its true comps.

The bottom line

Space costs $257 to $586 per foot in Central Oregon depending on where you buy it. If you want to know what your square footage is worth on your street, request a valuation and we will run the comps, or explore the live Central Oregon dashboard.