Alameda, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Alameda: a median closing price of $1,121,111 across 312 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
If you invest in or around Alameda, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Alameda sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of August 2026.
The snapshot
- •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 312
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $1,121,111
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $670
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $840,000 and $1,500,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 312 closed sales in Alameda over the last six months, with a median closing price of $1,121,111. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $840,000 and $1,500,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. Across the 312 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $543 and $845 per square foot.
Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Alameda, CA (August 2026)
The median home price in Alameda is $1,121,111, measured across the 312 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $840,000 and $1,500,000.
Where Alameda sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Alameda over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $840,000 and $1,500,000. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.
How long a sale takes here
- •Listed to under contract: a median of 15 days, across 230 Alameda closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 21 days, across 229 Alameda closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Alameda angle
Alameda's interquartile spread sits about where the markets we track usually sit, which makes $1,121,111 an ordinary anchor: neither unusually sharp nor unusually blunt. The useful reading is not the width itself but the shape inside it. The upper half of the band is the wider side. Between $1,121,111 and $1,500,000 the closings are spread further apart than they are between $840,000 and $1,121,111, so a comp set drawn without attention to the top end will compress an expensive property back toward the middle. That is the most common way an estimate on a strong Alameda address ends up low. 312 closings give a solid sample to work with. Remember that $840,000 to $1,500,000 covers the middle half of those sales and not the whole distribution: closings below $840,000 and above $1,500,000 sit outside it entirely. If your subject belongs in either tail, the citywide figures describe the wrong population and your comps have to come from the tail itself.
From market read to offer price
A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.
And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,508+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.
Run any Alameda address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.
Cite this
Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:
Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Alameda, CA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 312
Median sold price: $1,121,111
Median sold $/sqft: $670 (312 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/alameda-ca-housing-market
The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.
Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Alameda over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Alameda?
The median sold price in Alameda over the last 6 months is $1,121,111, measured across 312 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Alameda last month?
Resideline tracked 54 closed sales in Alameda in July 2026, out of 312 closings tracked over the last six months. These are tracked samples of market activity, not official county totals.
What is the typical sale price range in Alameda?
The middle half of Alameda sales over the last six months closed between $840,000 and $1,500,000, with a median of $1,121,111.
What is the typical price per square foot in Alameda?
Among qualifying Alameda closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $670, measured across 312 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
How should I set comp filters for a property in Alameda?
Match structure before you match price. Alameda's band from $840,000 to $1,500,000 is about as wide as the markets we track generally are, so filtering on property type, living area and condition costs you less precision than in a very wide market and buys you a lot. Because the upper half of the band is wider, an expensive subject needs comps drawn from above $1,121,111 specifically, not from the citywide pool. The 312 closings on record are deep enough to keep a matched subset intact after those filters.
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