Murrieta, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Murrieta: a median closing price of $645,000 across 871 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: 871
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $645,000
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $314
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $520,000 and $765,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 871 closed sales in Murrieta over the last six months, with a median closing price of $645,000. 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 $520,000 and $765,000. 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 868 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $273 and $355 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Murrieta, CA (September 2026)
The median home price in Murrieta is $645,000, measured across the 871 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $520,000 and $765,000.
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 that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $520,000 and $765,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Murrieta's middle-half spread ($520,000 to $765,000) ranks 67th 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 20th 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 26 days, across 611 Murrieta closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 583 Murrieta closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
The Murrieta angle
Murrieta shows 871 closings in our six-month window, a median closed sale price of $645,000, and a middle half of sales closing between $520,000 and $765,000. 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. The band is close to even around $645,000: the ground down to $520,000 and the ground up to $765,000 are about the same. A comp set that drifts low misprices about as much as one that drifts high, so spend your effort on matching rather than on placement.
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 Murrieta 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: Murrieta, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0650076
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 871
Median sold price: $645,000
Median sold $/sqft: $314 (868 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 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 $645,000, measured across 871 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Murrieta last month?
Resideline tracked 117 closed sales in Murrieta in August 2026, out of 871 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 $520,000 and $765,000, with a median of $645,000.
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 $314, measured across 868 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. That depends on the property more than on the citywide count. Higher transaction volume creates more potential comps, but the usable set for an individual property still depends on property type, size, condition, location, and recency.
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