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September 2026 dataCalifornia statewide

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California statewide · September 2026 home data available

58 counties · 53 reported · 5 not published

Median home price
$899,720
+1.7% year over year
Unsold inventory
3.7 mo.
3.6 months one year ago
Median time to sell
29 days
32 days one year ago
Closed sales
−6.5%
year over year
Signal, not a forecast

California statewide

California prices rose 1.7% from a year earlier.

The September median was $899,720, compared with $901,420 in August and $884,390 in September 2025. Closed sales fell 6.5% year over year. Monthly medians reflect the mix of homes sold, not the change in value of an individual home.

September comparison

Price · month
−0.2%
Price · year
+1.7%
Sales · month
−3.4%
Sales · year
−6.5%

August 2026 median: $901,420 · September 2025: $884,390

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September 2026 snapshot · Released October 19, 2026 · Verified October 20, 2026. This is a dated report, not a live data feed. Published revisions are included.

C.A.R. reports 53 counties. Alpine, Colusa, Inyo, Modoc and Sierra are not published in this release. Missing values are never filled with statewide numbers. County sales changes are not seasonally adjusted; statewide sales use the seasonally adjusted annualized series.

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California housing market data for all 58 counties

Open a county page for its dated home-market figures and land due-diligence context. Alpine, Colusa, Inyo, Modoc and Sierra remain listed with home metrics explicitly unavailable because C.A.R. does not publish county rows for them.