Santa Monica, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

Santa Monica 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: 424
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $1,800,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $1,100
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $1,103,000 and $2,875,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 424 closed sales in Santa Monica over the last six months, with a median closing price of $1,800,000. 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 $1,103,000 and $2,875,000. 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 420 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $850 and $1,444 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Santa Monica, CA (August 2026)

The median home price in Santa Monica is $1,800,000, measured across the 424 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $1,103,000 and $2,875,000.

Where Santa Monica sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Santa Monica over the last six months, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $1,103,000 and $2,875,000. 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 40 days, across 245 Santa Monica closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 13 days, across 233 Santa Monica closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

The Santa Monica angle

Across 424 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $1,800,000, and the middle half of sales closed between $1,103,000 and $2,875,000. At that width the citywide median describes the city and almost nothing about a particular address, so it belongs in the context section of a report and never on the valuation line. Build the value from a short set of genuinely comparable closings you can verify, and document why each one qualifies.

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 Santa Monica 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: Santa Monica, CA
Data updated: August 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 424
Median sold price: $1,800,000
Median sold $/sqft: $1,100 (420 qualifying)
https://resideline.com/blog/santa-monica-ca-housing-market

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 Santa Monica over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track inside the 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 424 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $1,750,000.