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

San Rafael 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: 311
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $1,300,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $687
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $850,000 and $1,761,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 311 closed sales in San Rafael over the last six months, with a median closing price of $1,300,000. 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 $850,000 and $1,761,000. 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 303 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $540 and $871 per square foot.

Figures last updated November 4, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

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

The median home price in San Rafael is $1,300,000, measured across the 311 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $850,000 and $1,761,000.

Where San Rafael sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in San Rafael 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 $850,000 and $1,761,000. Among the 263 California markets with a published band, San Rafael's middle-half spread ($850,000 to $1,761,000) ranks 220th 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 81st percentile of the 2,291 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of November 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 19 days, across 212 San Rafael closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 20 days, across 203 San Rafael closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Both are measured from the closings themselves, not from listing inventory. Each sale is timed using its own listing and contract dates. That is why these counts are smaller than the 311 closings above: a sale is counted here only when we hold both of its dates.

The San Rafael angle

Across 311 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $1,300,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $850,000 and $1,761,000. That band is wider than most of the markets we track, and it opens out on both sides of the median at a similar rate, so a subject can plausibly belong anywhere across a long stretch of the record. Match comps tightly on everything you can verify, keep your set small and close, and expect a broad answer from any method that leans on the citywide center.

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 Rafael 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: San Rafael, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0668364
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 311
Median sold price: $1,300,000
Median sold $/sqft: $687 (303 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 Rafael over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the San Rafael 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 12% of the 311 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $1,325,000.