Los Angeles, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Los Angeles 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: 6,098
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $1,075,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $668
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $717,500 and $1,775,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 6,098 closed sales in Los Angeles over the last six months, with a median closing price of $1,075,000. 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 $717,500 and $1,775,000. 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. The large tracked sample provides substantial market-level evidence. Across the 5,966 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $491 and $920 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Los Angeles, CA (August 2026)

The median home price in Los Angeles is $1,075,000, measured across the 6,098 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $717,500 and $1,775,000.

Where Los Angeles sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Los Angeles over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $717,500 and $1,775,000. 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 34 days, across 3,257 Los Angeles closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 16 days, across 2,989 Los Angeles closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Los Angeles angle

Los Angeles rewards patience with comps. Of the 6,098 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $1,075,000, with the middle half of sales closing between $717,500 and $1,775,000, a wider spread than most markets we track. That band covers a lot of ground in absolute terms, so a loosely chosen comp can move the answer more than any later adjustment will correct, and the reach above the median is longer than the reach below it. The Los Angeles sample ranks among the deepest we track, so tighten the filters until the remaining sales genuinely look like your subject before averaging anything.

What is being reported about the Los Angeles market

The numbers above are what we measure from tracked closings. Alongside them, here is what local and national coverage is reporting, from the source:

• •FOX 11 Los Angeles reported, citing California Association of Realtors data released July 16, that Los Angeles County's median home price was $910,370 in June 2026, up 8.6% from May and up 0.7% from June 2025, as median prices across Southern California cooled month over month (FOX 11 Los Angeles, Jul 21, 2026)
• •The California Association of Realtors reported that Los Angeles County's median existing single-family home price was $910,370 in June 2026, up 0.7% year over year with sales up 6.8%, while the Los Angeles Metro Area median was $850,000, flat year over year with sales up 9.1% (California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.), Jul 16, 2026)

Los Angeles market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Los Angeles ZIP codes: 90046.

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. As of August 2026, the public scoreboard showed 3.26% median error across 12,516+ graded closings. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

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

Cite this

Using these numbers? Please cite the source and the sample size:

Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Los Angeles, CA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 6,098
Median sold price: $1,075,000
Median sold $/sqft: $668 (5,966 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/los-angeles-housing-market-2026

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 Los Angeles over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track inside the 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 6,098 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $1,100,000.