How Much Are Condos in Columbus, Ohio? $299,900

903 condominiums and townhouses are for sale around Columbus right now, and the median one asks $299,900. The median house asks $399,900. That looks like a $100,000 discount for picking a condo, and it is not. It is a size discount, and once you correct for size it disappears.

I pulled every active condominium and townhouse listing in Franklin, Delaware, Licking, Union, Fairfield, Madison and Pickaway counties and set it against every active single family house in the same seven counties. Listings already under contract are left out, because you cannot buy those.

How Much Are Condos in Columbus, Ohio?

	Listings	Median ask	Median size	Ask per sq ft	Median year built
Condo or townhouse	903	$299,900	1,421 sq ft	$214.06	2000
Single family house	3,824	$399,900	1,925 sq ft	$204.30	1980

Source: Columbus and Central Ohio Regional MLS IDX feed, Active status only, seven counties, pulled October 7, 2026. Square footage is recorded on 868 of the 903 condo listings and the per-foot figure is the median of each listing's own price divided by its own size. The count is 871 condominiums plus 32 townhouses.

A note on what I left out. The feed carries another 77 active listings under a category called Other Residential without Deeded Land, at a median $79,999. Those are not condominiums, they are homes sold without the ground underneath them, and mixing them in drags the condo median down by thirteen thousand dollars. I left them out.

So the condo asks $100,000 less and nine dollars and change more per square foot. Both of those are true at the same time because the median condo is 504 square feet smaller than the median house. You are not buying the same thing for less money. You are buying less of a different thing.

Are Condos Cheaper Than Houses in Columbus?

So take only the listings between 1,200 and 1,600 square feet, which puts both sides at the same size, and look again.

1,200 to 1,600 sq ft only	Listings	Median ask	Median size	Ask per sq ft	Median year built
Condo or townhouse	289	$279,999	1,352 sq ft	$203.87	2000
Single family house	776	$274,950	1,379 sq ft	$202.91	1957

Same source and date. Band chosen because it is where the two property types overlap most heavily.

At the same size the condo asks $5,049 more, and the two are within a dollar a foot of each other. The entire $100,000 headline gap was square footage.

What you do get for that nearly identical money is a building 43 years younger. The condo in this band was built in 2000. The house was built in 1957. That is the trade the numbers describe. A 2000 build has the wiring, plumbing, window and insulation standards of its decade. A 1957 build has a yard.

I grew up around residential construction. My dad, my grandpa, my uncle and my great-grandpa were builders, and I worked in it until I was twenty. When I walk a 1957 house I am looking for water first, which way the grade runs away from the foundation and where the downspouts put it. When I walk a condo I am asking a different set of questions, because the things that cost the most money are not inside the unit you are touring. They are the roof, the siding, the parking lot and the balconies, and you own a slice of all of them.

Which Columbus Suburbs Have Condos, and What Do They Cost?

Town	Condo listings	Condo median	Condo per sq ft	House median	House per sq ft
Columbus	460	$290,000	$224	$254,800	$188
Dublin	68	$349,900	$222	$739,900	$246
Westerville	62	$292,950	$199	$479,950	$213
Powell	36	$400,000	$232	$599,900	$226
Blacklick	28	$225,000	$176	$447,450	$211
Hilliard	25	$319,000	$222	$535,950	$214

Town is the mailing address on the listing, and towns with fewer than 20 active condo listings are not shown. Of the 903, 723 are in Franklin County, 91 in Delaware and 34 in Licking.

Two rows are worth sitting with.

Dublin is the biggest one. A condo there asks $349,900 and a house asks $739,900, so the condo is 47 percent of the house price, and per foot the condo is cheaper too, $222 against $246. Westerville does the same thing on a smaller scale, $292,950 against $479,950 with the condo cheaper per foot as well. If a particular address is what you are after and the house prices there have moved past you, those two towns are where the attached product does the most work. That is the strongest argument for a condo in this market and it is specific to a handful of towns, not general.

Powell does not work that way. The condo median is $400,000 and the per-foot number is higher than the house, $232 against $226.

The Columbus city row runs backwards, condo $290,000 against house $254,800, and that is a composition effect rather than a finding. The two property types are not in the same places inside the city. 216 of the 460 condo listings with a Columbus address, 47.0 percent, sit in the downtown and inner-ring zip codes 43215, 43201, 43202, 43205, 43206, 43212 and 43222, and zip 43215 alone holds 120 of them. Only 24.7 percent of the 1,261 house listings are in those same zips. In those zips the condo median is $389,900 and outside them it is $225,000. One row, two different sets of addresses. Read the suburb rows instead.

What Does a Condo Cost by Price Band?

Asking price	Listings	Share	Median size	Ask per sq ft
Under $150,000	51	5.6%	903 sq ft	$123
$150,000 to $249,999	259	28.7%	1,152 sq ft	$181
$250,000 to $349,999	239	26.5%	1,394 sq ft	$214
$350,000 to $499,999	177	19.6%	1,712 sq ft	$233
$500,000 and up	177	19.6%	2,145 sq ft	$316

If you have been searching under $150,000, that is 51 listings out of 903, a median $117,500 for 903 square feet, and 47 of the 51 carry a Columbus mailing address. By zip code, 43220 has 28 listings at a median $220,000, 43235 has 29 at $248,777, 43221 has 16 at $249,950 and 43229 has 10 at $112,750.

Age moves the price more than anything else on this list. Condos built before 1980 ask a median $244,900 at $195 a foot. Condos built in 2020 or later ask $542,500 at $268 a foot. Same property type, 37 percent more per foot for the newer decade.

That carries into new construction, where the attached premium is at its widest. The 124 new condo and townhouse listings ask $549,948 for 1,955 square feet, or $268 a foot. The 485 new single family listings ask $515,000 for 2,453 square feet, or $222 a foot. A new attached home costs 21 percent more per foot and gives you 498 fewer feet. If you want a specific example of how that product is priced and laid out, I wrote up the Pulte townhomes at Towns on the Greenway in Westerville, and for what is available new under $300,000 in any form, see new construction homes in Columbus under $300K.

The Number This Data Cannot Give You

Property tax on these listings is close. The median condo listing reports $3,727 a year and the median house reports $4,362, which tracks the price difference and tells you nothing surprising.

The HOA fee is the number that decides whether a condo works for you, and it is not in a form I will quote a median for. Two units at the same price can carry fees three hundred dollars a month apart, and a fee is not good or bad on its own until you know what it covers. Some include the roof, the water, the exterior insurance and the lawn. Some include the parking structure. Some include almost nothing.

Three things I ask for before a client writes on a condo here, every time:

1. The current monthly fee and exactly what it covers, in writing, plus the fee history for the last five years. A fee that moved twice in five years and a fee that has not moved since 2014 tell you opposite things about the next five.
2. The reserve study and the reserve balance. An association with real money set aside for the roof is a different purchase from one that will assess for it. Ohio condominium associations operate under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5311. Section 5311.081 says the budget must include reserves "in an amount adequate to repair and replace major capital items in the normal course of operations without the necessity of special assessments," and that the reserve cannot be less than ten percent of the annual budget unless the owners waive it, annually, by not less than a majority of the association's voting power. So ask whether this association has been waiving it.
3. The special assessment history and anything pending. This is the one that bites. A $280,000 unit with a $19,000 assessment coming is a $299,000 unit, and the listing will not say so.

If the answer to any of those is slow to arrive, that is information too.

So Should You Buy a Condo in Columbus?

Buy one because of what it is, not because you think it is the cheap version of a house. At the same square footage it is not cheaper, it is newer, and somebody else handles the roof and the lawn in exchange for a fee you do not control.

The place the math does favor it is a specific address you cannot otherwise reach. Dublin and Westerville are the two clearest cases in this pull, where the attached home is both less money and less per foot than the house next door. If a condo in a neighborhood you want sits near the same price as a 1957 house in the same band, you are choosing between a newer building and a yard. That is a decision with trade-offs on both sides, not a bargain and not a mistake.

If you want to see how three specific Columbus submarkets compare on attached product, I broke out downtown against the Short North against Grandview. And if you are trying to work out what price you can carry at all before you pick a property type, start with the salary needed to buy a house in Columbus. If you own a condo now and the next move depends on what it would bring, start with what your home is worth.

These are Active listings on October 7, 2026, and a town with 20 or 60 condo listings can look different a month from now. Send me your price band and the towns you care about, and I will pull the current list with the monthly fee, what the fee covers, and the reserve and special-assessment history noted on each one, so you can see which of them is still the price on the sign once the fee is in it.

Thinking about buying or selling in Columbus? Let's talk. Contact Adam Geuy at Blacktree Realty.