San Diego, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

San Diego produces a steady stream of closings but little consensus: sales over the last six months span a range wide enough that the median is a midpoint between different markets, not a going rate. The distribution below matters more than the headline.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 5,468
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $943,500
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $665
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $657,500 and $1,395,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 5,468 closed sales in San Diego over the last six months, with a median closing price of $943,500. 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 $657,500 and $1,395,000. 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. Across the 5,369 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $548 and $815 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in San Diego, CA (October 2026)

The median home price in San Diego is $943,500, measured across the 5,468 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $657,500 and $1,395,000.

Where San Diego sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in San Diego 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 $657,500 and $1,395,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, San Diego's middle-half spread ($657,500 to $1,395,000) ranks 223rd 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 83rd percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 16 days, across 4,002 San Diego closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 3,996 San Diego closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

San Diego prices by property type

Among the San Diego closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $731 per square foot (2,802 sales), condos at $614 (1,688 sales), townhouses at $601 (568 sales), multi-family homes at $612 (268 sales) and manufactured homes at $181 (43 sales).

The San Diego angle

San Diego closed data supports careful work rather than quick averages. Resideline tracked 5,468 closings over the last six months, a median closed sale price of $943,500, and a middle half between $657,500 and $1,395,000, wider than most markets we track. Treat the median as orientation and build the number from matched sales; there is more distance from the median up to the upper quartile than down to the lower one, so an anchor set at the midpoint will read low for stronger properties. Depth is not the constraint in San Diego, with a closing count among the top 10% we track.

San Diego market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for San Diego ZIP codes: 92128 · 92101 · 92109 · 92103 · 92154 · 92117 · 92104 · 92105 · 92108 · 92115 · 92120 · 92122.

From market read to offer price

A spread this wide means the citywide number cannot price a specific address; the step that matters is the property-level read. 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, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR 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 Diego 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 Diego, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0666000
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 5,468
Median sold price: $943,500
Median sold $/sqft: $665 (5,369 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 San Diego over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is.