Riverside, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in Riverside: a median closing price of $640,000 across 1,486 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
Riverside 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: 1,486
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $640,000
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $380
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $545,000 and $745,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 1,486 closed sales in Riverside over the last six months, with a median closing price of $640,000. 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 $545,000 and $745,000. 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. 86% of the Riverside 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 1,478 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $327 and $448 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in Riverside, CA (September 2026)
The median home price in Riverside is $640,000, measured across the 1,486 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $545,000 and $745,000.
Where Riverside sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Riverside 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 $545,000 and $745,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Riverside's middle-half spread ($545,000 to $745,000) ranks 33rd 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 8th 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 22 days, across 816 Riverside closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 26 days, across 834 Riverside closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
Riverside Real Estate Market Trends in 2026
Among the Riverside closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $392 per square foot (1,274 sales), condos at $358 (93 sales), townhouses at $355 (49 sales) and manufactured homes at $95 (47 sales).
The Riverside angle
Riverside carries one of the tightest quartile bands we measure. Resideline tracked 1,486 closings over the last six months; the median closed sale price was $640,000 and the middle half of sales closed between $545,000 and $745,000, a spread sitting in one of the narrowest tenth of the markets we track. When ordinary sales cluster this closely, the citywide median is a legitimate anchor, and an estimate falling well outside the band needs a specific justification before you accept it.
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 Riverside 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: Riverside, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0662000
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 1,486
Median sold price: $640,000
Median sold $/sqft: $380 (1,478 qualifying)
Property mix: 86% houses
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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 Riverside over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Riverside 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 11% of the 1,486 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone matched it at $640,000.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in Riverside?
The median sold price in Riverside over the last 6 months is $640,000, measured across 1,486 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in Riverside last month?
Resideline tracked 211 closed sales in Riverside in August 2026, out of 1,486 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 Riverside?
The middle half of Riverside sales over the last six months closed between $545,000 and $745,000, with a median of $640,000.
What is the typical price per square foot in Riverside?
Among qualifying Riverside closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $380, measured across 1,478 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
Can the Riverside median be used as a valuation anchor?
More safely than in most markets we track. Riverside's middle half of closings ran from $545,000 to $745,000 around a median of $640,000, one of the tightest bands we measure, so ordinary properties cluster near the middle. Treat a result well outside that range as a prompt to re-examine the comps, not as a finding.
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