Maine’s housing market broke records in 2020, with sales and prices through the roof Despite the pandemic, the year's home sales outpaced all previous years, and the median price of homes sold rose to a new high of $256,000. Share It took Colin Wagner, a first-time homebuyer, eight months and multiple rejected offers before he finally purchased a house in South Portland. Despite the pandemic, residential real estate sales broke records in Maine during 2020. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer If you were trying to buy a home in Maine in 2020, you needed a pile of money, a dash of creativity or a dose of luck.