Do Jordan 11s resell above retail? 16 pairs checked (updated October 2026)

Every December, Jordan Brand releases a new Air Jordan 11, and the common belief is that the holiday pair will hold its value. Some years it does. The 2024 pair, Legend Blue, still sells for less than it cost in the store.

Jordan 11 Retro Concord (2018)Photo: StockXJordan 11 Retro Gamma Blue (2025)Photo: StockXJordan 11 Retro Legend Blue (2024)Photo: StockXJordan 11 Retro Low University Blue (2026)Photo: StockX

We compared the median resale price of 16 adult Jordan 11s with their retail price, using 17,195 StockX sales recorded between July 28 and October 25, 2026. Eight of the nine December releases sell above retail. Of the seven pairs released at other times of year, two do.

Updated October 30, 2026. The September 25 version of this post compared 14 pairs. Re-running it on today's StockX retail catalog (48,842 listings, against 47,997 in the September snapshot) showed that the old catalog had missed three Jordan 11s that cleared the same bar of 270 recorded sales in the June 27 - September 24 window: the Playoffs Bred (2019) at 38% above retail (742 sales), the Low University Blue (2026) at 34% below retail (3,148 sales, the second most-traded Jordan 11 of the summer) and the women's Low Mother's Day at 50% below (500 sales). Every figure the September post gave for the 14 shoes it named still holds within a point on today's record (sales counts moved by 0 to 3), but its headline should have read eight of nine December pairs and one of eight others. The table and chart below use the latest 90 complete days instead; the September figures are kept in the methodology.

Eight of nine holiday pairs sell above retail

The older December pairs lead. The 2018 Concord sells for a $347 median against a $220 retail price, 58% above retail, and every one of its 505 recorded sales went above retail. The 2019 Playoffs Bred, the 2016 Space Jam and the 2021 Cool Grey are each a third or more above retail. The most recent holiday pair, Gamma Blue (December 2025), sells for $283, 20% above its $235 retail, and 97% of its 5,229 StockX sales in the window were above retail.

Legend Blue is the exception among the holiday pairs. It sells for $206, 10% under retail, and only about a quarter of its recent sales (27%) went above $230. A year on from its release it has not recovered: its September median was $205.

Eight of nine December Jordan 11s sell above retail. Of the seven released in other months, two do.

Outside December, two pairs sell above retail

The two are the 2024 Low Space Jam, 36% above its $190 retail with all of its 417 recorded sales above retail, and the September 2026 Comme des Garcons Homme Plus Black, a $358 collaboration that sells for $591, 65% above retail on 349 sales in its first seven weeks. The rest sell below retail, and the newest pairs sell furthest below it. The Low University Blue (2026) is the clearest case: 2,746 sales in the window, a $125 median against a $195 retail price, 36% under.

Mojave and the Low 72-10 fell under the 270-sale bar this window (246 and 235 sales), so they are listed with their samples but left out of the counts and the test. The women's Pearl has moved a little since September, from $115 to $130, but only 1% of its 333 sales went above its $230 retail.

With 16 shoes, this is a pattern, not a rule. Holiday pairs differ from the others in more than their release month, and the older pairs on this list are the ones people still trade often, which favours pairs that held their value. The Comme des Garcons pair shows the other way a Jordan 11 clears retail: a small collaboration run, not a December date.

Kids' sizes follow the adult pair

Grade-school (GS) versions track their adult pair, but more sharply. The Gamma Blue GS sells 29% above its $190 retail ($245 median, 807 sales). The Legend Blue GS sells 44% below its $185 retail ($104 median, 428 sales), and the Rare Air GS sells 38% below ($117, 262 sales).

Gamma Blue fell after release, then settled

Figures from the September 24 analysis, not re-run in October. On StockX, Gamma Blue's median was $343.50 in its December 2025 release month (32,290 sales), fell to $281 by February and held between about $259 and $287 through September; the October window above puts it at $283. Legend Blue followed a similar path one year earlier, from $215 in December 2024 to $175 by April 2025, and climbed back to $208.50 in September 2026. Both pairs sold for the most around their release, then fell over the next two to four months.

Big sizes cost more, and highs cost more than lows

Figures from the September 24 analysis, not re-run in October. Across all Jordan 11s on GOAT, adult sizes 7 to 12 sold within a narrow band: medians between $227 and $250. Size 13 sold for $266.50 and size 14 for $291. Full-height adult Jordan 11s sold for a $262 median against $177 for Lows.

For one shoe's size-by-size prices, the Air Jordan 11 page lists every size, and the price checker looks up any listing. The Air Jordan 11 vs Air Jordan 12 comparison puts the model beside its December neighbour, and the sneakers reselling furthest above retail ranks every StockX listing on the same resale-to-retail ratio.

What this means

If you own a December Jordan 11 from 2016 to 2023, recorded sales put it above its retail price. Gamma Blue is still above retail ten months after release. Legend Blue shows that a holiday release can still sit below retail a year on, and the non-holiday pairs from 2025 and 2026 sell for less than retail today, the Low University Blue by a third. None of this is a forecast. It describes what these shoes sold for in the 90 days to October 25, 2026.