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Housing in Holt · A seller's market

A typical Holt home is worth about $274,000

Up 3.5% in a year, close to the Michigan typical home. Homes typically sell in 24 days, a little above asking.

Typical home value
$274K
▲ 3.5% in a year · MI $266K
Zillow
Median sale price
$263K
May 2026 · Redfin
Days on market
24
Faster than MI (24)
Sale-to-list
102.2%
Homes sell above asking
Homes sold
22
in May · 55 for sale
2-bedroom rent
$1,350
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$4,483
MI $2,904

What kind of housing town is Holt?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 3.2 years of income

Less than across Michigan (3.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$291,000
Typical Holt home $274K

That covers a typical Holt home, with $17K to spare.

The typical home, each month
$1,890
Loan $1,360Tax $450Insurance $80

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,350 a month here, $540 less than owning.

Where your budget reaches nearby

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Holt’s typical property tax (1.98% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Market temperature

A seller's market

Supply is tight — about 2.5 months of homes for sale at the current pace. Buyers should expect competition on well-priced homes.

Seller’s marketA seller's marketBuyer’sSeller’s

Under ~4 months of supply favors sellers; over ~6 favors buyers.

2.5
months of supply · MI 2.6
24
days to sell · MI 24
102.2%
of asking price, at sale
59.1%
sold above asking
73.8%
under contract within 2 weeks
42
new listings in May

Redfin Data Center, all residential sales, May 2026.

Price trend

Up 29% in five years

Faster than Michigan (24.1%).

HoltMichigan
$125K$150K$175K$200K$225K$250K$275K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryHoltMichigan
2017$144,000$144,000
2018$156,000$155,000
2019$167,000$165,000
2020$177,000$175,000
2021$198,000$194,000
2022$213,000$217,000
2023$230,000$230,000
2024$245,000$241,000
2025$261,000$253,000
2026$270,000$262,000
August 2026$274,000$266,000
Then & now

A typical Holt home worth $140K in September 2016 is worth about $274K today.

+$134K
+3.5%
past year
+29%
past 5 years
+95.6%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,350

Renters already here pay a median of $1,317.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,040
1 bedroom$1,080
2 bedrooms$1,350
3 bedrooms$1,730
4 bedrooms$1,790
35%
of households rent · MI 27%
3,484
renter households
47%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · MI 50%
19%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$1,317
median rent paid today · Census

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Lansing-East Lansing, MI MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

The homes

65% of Holt households own their home

Half of Holt’s homes were built before 1989.

Owners and renters
Own 65%Rent 35%

Michigan: 73% own.

1989
typical home built · MI 1972
$4,483
median property tax bill · MI $2,904
1.98%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · MI 1.25%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

Next door

Holt vs. its neighbors

Holt is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.

Compare more
TownTypical value1-yr change2-bed rentNew homes 2025Median income
Holt$274K+3.5%$1,350—$86,472
Delhi$234K*+4.1%†$1,3408$90,437
Lansing$129K*+4.7%†$1,230245$54,382

Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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