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

Brentwood closes a lot of homes into a narrow band, which makes its median unusually informative: sales over the last six months land close together, so the citywide number is a real anchor rather than an average of extremes.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 415
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $740,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $346
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $625,000 and $900,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 415 closed sales in Brentwood over the last six months, with a median closing price of $740,000. 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 $625,000 and $900,000. 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. 96% of the Brentwood closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 413 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $311 and $396 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Brentwood, CA (September 2026)

The median home price in Brentwood is $740,000, measured across the 415 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $625,000 and $900,000.

Where Brentwood sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Brentwood 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 $625,000 and $900,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Brentwood's middle-half spread ($625,000 to $900,000) ranks 57th from the narrowest. 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 21 days, across 313 Brentwood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 308 Brentwood closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Brentwood angle

Tightness makes $740,000 a credible starting point, because the closings behind it resemble one another. Depth makes it unnecessary to stop there. Use the median to frame and the comps to decide. Keep in mind that the upper half of the band runs wider than the lower half: the climb from $740,000 to $900,000 covers more ground than the drop to $625,000, so a comp set that leans toward larger or better finished homes moves an estimate further than the equivalent lean downward.

From market read to offer price

A tight market makes the next step easier: the citywide anchor sits close to most homes, and a report only has to explain the gap. 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 Brentwood 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: Brentwood, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0608142
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 415
Median sold price: $740,000
Median sold $/sqft: $346 (413 qualifying)
Property mix: 96% houses
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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 Brentwood over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Brentwood 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 415 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone matched it at $740,000.