Desert Hot Springs, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Desert Hot Springs: a median closing price of $382,411 across 282 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
Desert Hot Springs 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: 282
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $382,411
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $236
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $335,000 and $441,500
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 282 closed sales in Desert Hot Springs over the last six months, with a median closing price of $382,411. 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 $335,000 and $441,500. 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. 87% of the Desert Hot Springs 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 281 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $201 and $262 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Desert Hot Springs, CA (September 2026)
The median home price in Desert Hot Springs is $382,411, measured across the 282 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $335,000 and $441,500.
Where Desert Hot Springs sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Desert Hot Springs 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 $335,000 and $441,500. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Desert Hot Springs's middle-half spread ($335,000 to $441,500) ranks 17th 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 4th 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 44 days, across 153 Desert Hot Springs closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 25 days, across 137 Desert Hot Springs closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Desert Hot Springs angle
Desert Hot Springs is a clustering market: across 282 tracked closings in the last six months, the middle half of sales landed between $335,000 and $441,500, one of the tightest spreads we track, with a median closed sale price of $382,411. That tightness makes the median unusually informative here. Where it sits inside the band matters too: there is considerably more room between the median and the upper quartile than between the median and the lower quartile, so a property priced above the midpoint has more ordinary territory to move through than one priced below it. Comps still decide the number for a specific address, but in Desert Hot Springs the median is a strong opening position.
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 Desert Hot Springs 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: Desert Hot Springs, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0618996
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 282
Median sold price: $382,411
Median sold $/sqft: $236 (281 qualifying)
Property mix: 87% 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 Desert Hot Springs over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Desert Hot Springs 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 13% of the 282 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $393,500.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Desert Hot Springs?
The median sold price in Desert Hot Springs over the last 6 months is $382,411, measured across 282 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Desert Hot Springs last month?
Resideline tracked 56 closed sales in Desert Hot Springs in August 2026, out of 282 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 Desert Hot Springs?
The middle half of Desert Hot Springs sales over the last six months closed between $335,000 and $441,500, with a median of $382,411.
What is the typical price per square foot in Desert Hot Springs?
Among qualifying Desert Hot Springs closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $236, measured across 281 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
Does a tight band mean the Desert Hot Springs median is a safe number to use?
It means the median is a stronger starting point, because tracked closings here bunch inside a narrow range. It does not mean individual properties stop differing, and a home that is not a typical local sale still needs matched comps to support any gap from $382,411. Use the band from $335,000 to $441,500 as the plausibility test for whatever number you reach.
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