Murrieta, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Murrieta: a median closing price of $649,450 across 870 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
Murrieta 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: 870
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $649,450
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $313
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $525,000 and $775,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 870 closed sales in Murrieta over the last six months, with a median closing price of $649,450. 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 $525,000 and $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. Across the 867 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $274 and $356 per square foot.
Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Murrieta, CA (August 2026)
The median home price in Murrieta is $649,450, measured across the 870 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $525,000 and $775,000.
Where Murrieta sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Murrieta over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $525,000 and $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 26 days, across 609 Murrieta closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 585 Murrieta closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Murrieta angle
Murrieta shows 870 closings in our six-month window, a median closed sale price of $649,450, and a middle half of sales closing between $525,000 and $775,000. Among the markets we track, few cluster this tightly, so the median is an anchor you can reason from instead of a summary that hides everything interesting.
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. 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 Murrieta 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: Murrieta, CA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 870
Median sold price: $649,450
Median sold $/sqft: $313 (867 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/murrieta-ca-housing-market
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 Murrieta over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Murrieta?
The median sold price in Murrieta over the last 6 months is $649,450, measured across 870 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Murrieta last month?
Resideline tracked 141 closed sales in Murrieta in July 2026, out of 870 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 Murrieta?
The middle half of Murrieta sales over the last six months closed between $525,000 and $775,000, with a median of $649,450.
What is the typical price per square foot in Murrieta?
Among qualifying Murrieta closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $313, measured across 867 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
What does the Murrieta band tell me about pricing risk?
It tells you that ordinary closings sit close together, so the cost of misjudging the market level is small and the cost of misjudging the property is comparatively larger. In practice that means less time spent debating where the market is and more spent confirming that your comps genuinely resemble the subject. Our closed-sale sample here is deep, so strict matching is realistic rather than aspirational.
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