Commercial Real Estate Market in Rockland, ME
Updated monthly: sale, lease, property records, location trend, and more… · Last update: October 31
59 active listings and 476 off-market properties in Rockland, ME.
Market Trends
Rockland, ME spans 12.8 square miles in Knox County, Maine. Figures below refresh monthly; last updated 31 October 2026.
Office
Across Knox County, office space asks $154/SF to buy. Office vacancy in Rockland, ME runs 19.9% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 13.1% in 2019.
Retail
Across Knox County, retail space asks $186/SF to buy. Retail vacancy in Rockland, ME runs 6% across the Northeast region in 2025, little changed from 6% in 2019. Down from a 2020 peak of 7.1%.
Industrial
Industrial vacancy in Rockland, ME runs 7.6% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 5.4% in 2019. Nearly 2.4x the 2021 low of 3.2%.
Multifamily
Across Knox County, multifamily space asks $189/SF to buy. Multifamily vacancy in Rockland, ME runs 5.6% across the Northeast region in 2025, up from 4% in 2022.
Zoning & Land Use
Land Use Mix share of zoned land by category
- Open space 36.8%
- Commercial 33.8%
- Residential 20.5%
- Industrial 5.9%
- Mixed use 2%
- Civic 0.5%
Largest Zones share of zoned land by district
Rockland, ME zones 8,269 acres across 43 districts. Commercial zoning covers 33.8% of zoned land, residential 20.5%, open space 36.8% and industrial 5.9%. The largest single district is Woodland And Wildlife Zone at 36.8%. For commercial buyers the practical constraint is that only 39.7% of land carries a commercial or industrial designation.
To preserve the unique area commonly known as the Rockland Bog in its wild and natural state, at the same time affording private landowners reasonable use of their environmentally-sensitive property and outdoor recreation enjoyment by the public on publicly-owned property
Market overview
Demographics & Economy
Rockland, ME has 6,936 residents in 4,073 households. Density runs 540 people per square mile. Median household income here is $55,276 and median gross rent $986 a month.
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Nearby Markets
Commercial property in Rockland, ME asks $149/SF. The 2 bordering markets run from $149/SF in Thomaston to $274/SF in Rockport, and the city sits below their $212/SF median.
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Methodology & data sources
- Asking prices and medians
- There are 58 active for-sale and 1 active for-lease listings in Rockland, ME. The sale median is based on 52 of the for-sale listings that state a price per square foot; too few for-lease listings state a rent per square foot for a rent median. These are ASKING figures from live listings, not closed-transaction prices, and a figure resting on fewer than 10 listings says so where it is quoted.
- Vacancy rates
- Published per-sector market series, taken at the metro level where one exists and otherwise at the Census-region level — a chart reading "in <region> region" is a regional number, not this city's.
- Zoning and land use
- The current municipal zoning release: 8,269 zoned acres across 43 districts. Shares are of zoned land, so parcels the release leaves unclassified are excluded from the mix.
- Refresh
- The monthly aggregates close at the end of the previous month, so 31 October 2026 — not today — is the honest last update.
- Known limitations
- office vacancy is reported at Northeast region level, retail vacancy is reported at Northeast region level and industrial vacancy is reported at Northeast region level.
- Coverage
- Metrics below the 10-observation threshold fall back one geographic level. The geography used is named on each figure.
Compiled by the Realmo Data team · reviewed 31 October 2026 · How Realmo checks market page data · Report a data issue
