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August 27, 2026· Updated September 6, 2026
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Aliso Viejo, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

What homes actually sell for in Aliso Viejo: a median closing price of $899,000 across 241 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.

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Aliso Viejo, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Aliso Viejo, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Aliso Viejo sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

  • Closings tracked, last 6 months: 241
  • Median sold price, last 6 months: $899,000
  • Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $664
  • Middle half of sales closed between: $715,000 and $1,300,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 241 closed sales in Aliso Viejo over the last six months, with a median closing price of $899,000. 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 $715,000 and $1,300,000. 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 241 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $619 and $742 per square foot.

Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Aliso Viejo, CA (September 2026)

The median home price in Aliso Viejo is $899,000, measured across the 241 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $715,000 and $1,300,000.

Where Aliso Viejo sale prices land

What homes actually sell for in Aliso Viejo
Closed sale prices over the last six months. Middle half of sales: $715k to $1.3M
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$580k to $894k: 108 sales108sales$580k$894k to $1.21M: 48 sales$1.21M to $1.52M: 40 sales$1.21M$1.52M to $1.84M: 12 sales$1.84M to $2.15M: 8 sales$1.84MMedian $899k

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Aliso Viejo over the last six months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $715,000 and $1,300,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Aliso Viejo's middle-half spread ($715,000 to $1,300,000) ranks 188th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median.

Median sold price per square foot
Aliso Viejo monthly medians for the complete months inside the last six months, Apr 2026 to Aug 2026, among qualifying closings with usable living area. 5 months plotted.
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Apr 2026: $685 per square foot across 47 sales$685AprMay 2026: $637 per square foot across 43 sales$637MayJun 2026: $661 per square foot across 51 sales$661JunJul 2026: $687 per square foot across 35 sales$687JulAug 2026: $681 per square foot across 41 sales$681Aug

How long a sale takes here

  • Listed to under contract: a median of 30 days, across 117 Aliso Viejo closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
  • Contract to closing: a median of 9 days, across 132 Aliso Viejo closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 241 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The Aliso Viejo angle

Aliso Viejo's tracked closings over the last six months come to 241, with a median closed sale price of $899,000 and the middle half of sales spread between $715,000 and $1,300,000. That asymmetry is exactly where careless valuations go wrong, because a subject read as above average invites a large step up that must be earned with evidence. Build from closed sales that genuinely match, and reserve the median for judging plausibility.

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. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Aliso Viejo address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Aliso Viejo, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0600947
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 241
Median sold price: $899,000
Median sold $/sqft: $664 (241 qualifying)
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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 Aliso Viejo over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Aliso Viejo city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 12% of the 241 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $895,500.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the median home price in Aliso Viejo?

The median sold price in Aliso Viejo over the last 6 months is $899,000, measured across 241 closings Resideline tracked.

How many homes sold in Aliso Viejo last month?

Resideline tracked 41 closed sales in Aliso Viejo in August 2026, out of 241 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 Aliso Viejo?

The middle half of Aliso Viejo sales over the last six months closed between $715,000 and $1,300,000, with a median of $899,000.

What is the typical price per square foot in Aliso Viejo?

Among qualifying Aliso Viejo closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $664, measured across 241 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.

How should the uneven Aliso Viejo band affect a valuation?

It should make you slower to reach for the top of the range. The upper quartile at $1,300,000 sits much further above the midpoint than the lower quartile at $715,000 sits below it, so upside estimates travel a long way from the market's center. A value in that upper stretch can be right, but it needs closed sales that resemble the property to carry it.

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