Ventura, CA Housing Market 2026: What Homes Actually Sell For

If you invest in or around Ventura, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Ventura sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, as of October 2026.

A note on scope: these figures are for Ventura itself, not Ventura County. They share a name but are different areas, and county-wide numbers will differ.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 6 months: 478
• •Median sold price, last 6 months: $860,000
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 6 months: $542
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $610,000 and $1,135,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 478 closed sales in Ventura over the last six months, with a median closing price of $860,000. 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 $610,000 and $1,135,000. 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 473 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $441 and $700 per square foot.

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

Median home price in Ventura, CA (October 2026)

The median home price in Ventura is $860,000, measured across the 478 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last six months. The middle half of those sales closed between $610,000 and $1,135,000.

Where Ventura sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Ventura 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 $610,000 and $1,135,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Ventura's middle-half spread ($610,000 to $1,135,000) ranks 192nd 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 69th 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 35 days, across 279 Ventura closings Resideline tracked in the last six months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 13 days, across 265 Ventura closings Resideline tracked in the last six months

Ventura prices by property type

Among the Ventura closings with usable living area over the last six months, single-family houses closed at a median of $614 per square foot (310 sales), condos at $467 (75 sales), manufactured homes at $280 (40 sales) and townhouses at $467 (31 sales).

The Ventura angle

Ventura needs a comp set rather than a rule of thumb. Across 478 closings Resideline tracked over the last six months, the median closed sale price was $860,000 and the middle half of sales fell between $610,000 and $1,135,000. The width of that band is close to typical for the markets we track, and it runs to similar length on both sides of the median, so an error is about as likely to land high as low. Confirm property type and condition on every comp, then judge the price it closed at.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. 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 Ventura 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: Ventura, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0665042
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last six months
Tracked closings: 478
Median sold price: $860,000
Median sold $/sqft: $542 (473 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 Ventura over the last six months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Ventura 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 11% of the 478 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $862,000.