San Bernardino, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For
What homes actually sell for in San Bernardino: a median closing price of $485,000 across 785 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, plus the full price spread.
San Bernardino 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.
A note on scope: these figures are for San Bernardino itself, not San Bernardino County. They share a name but are different areas, and county-wide numbers will differ.
The snapshot
- •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 785
- •Median sold price, last 6 months: $485,000
- •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $352
- •Middle half of sales closed between: $400,000 and $555,000
What the numbers say
Resideline tracked 785 closed sales in San Bernardino over the last six months, with a median closing price of $485,000. 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 $400,000 and $555,000. 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. 86% of the San Bernardino 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 775 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $293 and $415 per square foot.
Figures last updated September 6, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.
Median home price in San Bernardino, CA (September 2026)
The median home price in San Bernardino is $485,000, measured across the 785 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $400,000 and $555,000.
Where San Bernardino sale prices land
Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in San Bernardino 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 $400,000 and $555,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, San Bernardino's middle-half spread ($400,000 to $555,000) ranks 40th from the narrowest. 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 21 days, across 402 San Bernardino closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
- •Contract to closing: a median of 26 days, across 412 San Bernardino closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
San Bernardino Real Estate Market Trends in 2026
Among the San Bernardino closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $363 per square foot (674 sales) and condos at $281 (50 sales).
The San Bernardino angle
San Bernardino has one of the tighter closed-sale spreads we track, sitting in the bottom ten percent for band width across our coverage. Across 785 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $485,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $400,000 and $555,000. When a market compresses like that, the citywide median carries real predictive weight, and the useful question changes from what a property is worth to whether it is typical enough for the median to apply. Note where the width sits: $400,000 to $485,000 spans more dollars than $485,000 to $555,000. Sales below the median are further apart in price than sales above it. Practically: price to the band, then justify any material departure from it with a specific matched closed comp rather than with judgement.
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 San Bernardino 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: San Bernardino, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0665000
Data updated: September 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 785
Median sold price: $485,000
Median sold $/sqft: $352 (775 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 San Bernardino over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the San Bernardino 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 15% of the 785 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $495,000.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median home price in San Bernardino?
The median sold price in San Bernardino over the last 6 months is $485,000, measured across 785 closings Resideline tracked.
How many homes sold in San Bernardino last month?
Resideline tracked 125 closed sales in San Bernardino in August 2026, out of 785 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 San Bernardino?
The middle half of San Bernardino sales over the last six months closed between $400,000 and $555,000, with a median of $485,000.
What is the typical price per square foot in San Bernardino?
Among qualifying San Bernardino closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median sold price per square foot was $352, measured across 775 sales with usable living area. Median is used rather than average because outliers distort the mean.
Why does the citywide median matter more in San Bernardino, CA?
Because the closings cluster. The middle half ran from $400,000 to $555,000 around a median of $485,000, a tighter spread than most markets we track, so a matched sale lands near the middle far more often than it would elsewhere. That makes the median a working anchor, and it makes any valuation well outside the band something you should be able to point at a comp to explain.
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