Monterey Park, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Monterey Park, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Monterey Park sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of September 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 253
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $882,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $572
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $686,508 and $1,100,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 253 closed sales in Monterey Park over the last six months, with a median closing price of $882,000. 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 $686,508 and $1,100,000. 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 252 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $501 and $686 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Monterey Park, CA (September 2026)

The median home price in Monterey Park is $882,000, measured across the 253 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $686,508 and $1,100,000.

Where Monterey Park sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Monterey Park 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 $686,508 and $1,100,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Monterey Park's middle-half spread ($686,508 to $1,100,000) ranks 123rd 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 40th 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 25 days, across 114 Monterey Park closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 13 days, across 128 Monterey Park closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Monterey Park angle

Monterey Park's middle half is compressed relative to most markets we track, with $686,508 and $1,100,000 sitting closer together than usual. That makes $882,000 unusually usable as a first reference, because the distance between the midpoint and any given sale inside the band is small. Compression cuts both ways. When the band is narrow, a comp that misses on living area or condition can push an estimate across a large share of the whole middle range, so small matching errors show up as visible dollar errors instead of getting lost in a broad spread. With 253 closings on file the sample supports reasonably strict filters, and strict is the right setting here. Keep the shape in mind too: the stretch above $882,000 is the wider of the two portions, so properties in the upper part of the band have more room to move than the compact overall range suggests.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. 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 Monterey Park 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: Monterey Park, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0648914
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 253
Median sold price: $882,000
Median sold $/sqft: $572 (252 qualifying)
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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 Monterey Park over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Monterey Park 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 253 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone matched it at $882,000.