Mission Viejo Housing Market Update — Saturday, October 17, 2026

How to read these figures

Realty.com’s September 2026 county-records median ($1,160,000, 73 recorded sales as of Sep 29) is the freshest monthly closed-sale figure; it replaces the still-settling $1,209,500 read on 48 sales (as of Sep 22) in the October 10 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 +2.1% 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 44-day median for homes sold over the three months ending September 2026 (Redfin calculations from MLS and/or public records; 51 days a year earlier) — a different source and a longer window than the single-month September price figures, and a newer window than the 44-day figure (3 months ending August) in the October 10 edition. RealtyHop’s 55-day figure (as of Oct 17) 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 277 (182 houses, 91 condos, 3 townhouses, 1 multifamily), refreshed hourly, while Realty.com’s MLS snapshot (as of Sep 27) showed 176 homes for sale at a $1,120,000 median list price. MLS sales closed at 98.6% of asking in September (79 sales as of Sep 30), with 21.9% of county-recorded buyers paying cash. Redfin is used only for median days on market; its city page was checked on Oct 17, 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.