Arcadia, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Arcadia produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 273
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $1,610,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $667
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $1,100,000 and $2,254,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 273 closed sales in Arcadia over the last six months, with a median closing price of $1,610,000. 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 $1,100,000 and $2,254,000. 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 271 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $567 and $813 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Arcadia, CA (September 2026)

The median home price in Arcadia is $1,610,000, measured across the 273 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $1,100,000 and $2,254,000.

Where Arcadia sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Arcadia 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 $1,100,000 and $2,254,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Arcadia's middle-half spread ($1,100,000 to $2,254,000) ranks 214th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 80th percentile of the 2,187 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of September 4, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 34 days, across 142 Arcadia closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 12 days, across 149 Arcadia closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Arcadia angle

Arcadia asks for tight comp matching. Across 273 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $1,610,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $1,100,000 and $2,254,000. A band that wide, wider than most markets we track, means the middle figure describes the city rather than any property in it, and a percentage adjustment applied to the median will drift badly. There is more room above the median than beneath it, so the upper part of the distribution deserves its own comps instead of an extrapolation from the centre.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. 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 Arcadia address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Arcadia, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0602462
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 273
Median sold price: $1,610,000
Median sold $/sqft: $667 (271 qualifying)
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Arcadia over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.