Mission Viejo Housing Market Update — Saturday, October 24, 2026

How to read these figures

Realty.com’s September 2026 county-records median ($1,180,000, 78 recorded sales as of Sep 30) is the freshest monthly closed-sale figure; it updates the $1,160,000 read on 73 sales (as of Sep 29) in the October 17 edition as more September recordings came in. 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. RealtyHop’s 59-day figure (as of Oct 24) 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 176 (119 houses, 53 condos, 4 townhouses), refreshed hourly — down from 277 in the October 17 edition — while Realty.com’s MLS snapshot (as of Sep 27) also 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 20.5% of county-recorded buyers paying cash. Redfin is used only for median days on market; its city page was checked on Oct 24, 2026. The 30-year rate is Freddie Mac’s week-ending-October-22 average (released Oct 22 at noon ET), down from 7.40% the prior week.