La Quinta, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in La Quinta: a median closing price of $795,500 across 664 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
La Quinta 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: 664
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $795,500
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $379
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $555,000 and $1,425,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 664 closed sales in La Quinta over the last six months, with a median closing price of $795,500. 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 $555,000 and $1,425,000. 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. 81% of the La Quinta 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 663 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $309 and $494 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in La Quinta, CA (September 2026)
The median home price in La Quinta is $795,500, measured across the 664 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $555,000 and $1,425,000.
Where La Quinta sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in La Quinta 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 $555,000 and $1,425,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, La Quinta's middle-half spread ($555,000 to $1,425,000) ranks 249th 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 93rd 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 54 days, across 466 La Quinta closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 14 days, across 438 La Quinta closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The La Quinta angle
The citywide median is a weak anchor in La Quinta and should be treated as one. Resideline tracked 664 closings over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $795,500, and the middle half of sales closed anywhere between $555,000 and $1,425,000. That quartile spread ranks among the widest we track, in the top tenth of markets, and the stretch from the median up to the upper quartile is far longer than the stretch down to the lower one. Pricing a specific property off the citywide figure here will be wrong more often than it is right. Match your comps tightly and be ready to justify where in that range your subject belongs.
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 La Quinta 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: La Quinta, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0640354
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 664
Median sold price: $795,500
Median sold $/sqft: $379 (663 qualifying)
Property mix: 81% houses
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Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in La Quinta over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in La Quinta?
The median sold price in La Quinta over the last 6 months is $795,500, measured across 664 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in La Quinta last month?
Resideline tracked 72 closed sales in La Quinta in August 2026, out of 664 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 La Quinta?
The middle half of La Quinta sales over the last six months closed between $555,000 and $1,425,000, with a median of $795,500.
What is the typical price per square foot in La Quinta?
Among qualifying La Quinta closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $379, measured across 663 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
How should I handle La Quinta's very wide closed sale range?
Stop treating the city as one market for pricing purposes and build the comp set around the subject instead. Because closings run from $555,000 to $1,425,000 through the middle half alone, $795,500 tells you almost nothing about a specific property. Filter the 664 tracked closings down to sales that match on attributes you can verify, keep the matched set small and defensible, and document why your value sits where it does within the wider distribution.
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