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: 5,732
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $948,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $673
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $659,000 and $1,408,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 5,732 closed sales in San Diego over the last six months, with a median closing price of $948,000. 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 $659,000 and $1,408,000. 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 5,638 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $553 and $824 per square foot.

Figures last updated August 22, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

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

The median home price in San Diego is $948,000, measured across the 5,732 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $659,000 and $1,408,000.

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, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $659,000 and $1,408,000. 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 16 days, across 4,365 San Diego closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 24 days, across 4,378 San Diego closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The San Diego angle

San Diego closed data supports careful work rather than quick averages. Resideline tracked 5,732 closings over the last six months, a median closed sale price of $948,000, and a middle half between $659,000 and $1,408,000, 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.

What is being reported about the San Diego market

The numbers above are what we measure from tracked closings. Alongside them, here is what local and national coverage is reporting, from the source:

• •Redfin's San Diego County market update reported that in July 2026 the median sale price was $937,251 (+2.4% year-over-year), 2,293 homes sold (+8% year-over-year), active listings fell 6.0% year-over-year to 8,959, homes went under contract in a median 29 days (7 days faster than a year earlier), and 36.1% of homes sold above list price (Redfin News, Aug 05, 2026)
• •KPBS, citing the California Association of Realtors, reported that the median price of an existing single-family home in San Diego County was $1.085 million in June 2026, up from $1.059 million in May and up 5.9% from June 2025, while county home sales rose 11.6% from May and 16.1% from June 2025 (KPBS (citing California Association of Realtors), Jul 17, 2026)

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: 92101.

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 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 San Diego 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: San Diego, CA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 5,732
Median sold price: $948,000
Median sold $/sqft: $673 (5,638 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/san-diego-housing-market-2026

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.