Laguna Beach Housing Market Update — Friday, October 16, 2026

How to read these figures

Realty.com’s September 2026 county-records median ($2,800,000, 30 recorded sales as of Sep 28) is the freshest monthly closed-sale figure; it replaces the still-settling $2,850,000 read on 24 sales (as of Sep 22) in the October 9 edition as more September recordings came in — and the “still settling” marker is no longer present. Realty.com does not publish a median-sale-price YoY %; its assessor repeat-sales index reads +18.4% YoY (as of Sep 30) — a different methodology, not presented as median-price YoY. Median days on market was not published in Realty.com’s September release, so it comes from the next source in the fallback chain: Redfin reports a 71-day median for homes sold over the three months ending September 2026 (Redfin calculations from MLS and/or public records; 103 days a year earlier) — a different source and a longer window than the single-month September price figures, and a newer window than the 67-day figure (3 months ending August) in the October 9 edition. RealtyHop’s 72-day figure (as of Oct 16) is an average for current listings, not a median for closings. Active-inventory counts vary by source and methodology: RealtyHop’s live residential count showed 274 (202 houses, 49 condos, 3 townhouses, 20 multifamily), refreshed hourly, while Realty.com’s MLS snapshot (as of Sep 27) showed 153 homes for sale at a $4,995,000 median list price. MLS sales closed at 95.7% of asking in September (26 sales as of Sep 28), with 63.3% of county-recorded buyers paying cash. Redfin is used only for median days on market; its city page was checked on Oct 16, 2026. The 30-year rate is Freddie Mac’s week-ending-October-15 average (released Oct 15 at noon ET), unchanged from the prior week.