Reports  ›  Weekly · 2026-10-18

California real estate — week of Oct 16, 2026

California's major metros split this week: 2 negative, 11 positive on year-over-year median sale price. Range this week: san-jose-sunnyvale-santa-clara at -3.3% YoY to san-francisco-oakland-berkeley at +6.1%.

Headline numbers

Bakersfield

$389K +1.0%

Fresno

$424K -2.3%

Los Angeles

$1.0M +1.2%

Modesto

$482K +1.3%

Oxnard / Thousand Oaks

$873K +1.4%

Riverside / San Bernardino

$583K +0.2%

Sacramento

$594K +1.2%

San Diego

$938K +3.2%

San Francisco

$1.2M +6.1%

San Jose

$1.5M -3.3%

Santa Rosa

$794K +1.1%

Stockton

$541K +0.9%

Visalia

$392K +3.6%

This week's signals

Strength 4 / 5

$979K

San Diego median sale price fell back under $1M — now $979K

Dropping back below $1M re-opens a buyer pool that had been priced out — and puts sellers on notice that the last few months' comps are no longer defensible.

Source divergence

ZIP-level reconciliation will appear here once curated ZIP coverage lands for California.

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