08/14/2026
$975,000 Buys the Best House in One County and the Worst in Another
$975,000 buys the most expensive home in San Bernardino. It also buys the cheapest home in Orange County.
Same number. Two markets that just started moving in opposite directions.
For July, the honest answer to "is the market up or down" is both. This wasn't a market moving. It was a market splitting... and if you only look at the median home price, you don't see it at all.
Nine years of July data across Orange County, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, and San Diego. Single family, condos and townhomes, and multifamily broken out separately, because they are not telling the same story.
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Why did new listings fall in nearly every Southern California county while buyers kept writing offers in some of them?
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Which two counties just posted all time high median home prices, and which one went backward year over year?
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What happened to Orange County multifamily closings that didn't happen anywhere else?
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Why are expensive homes getting harder to buy while the affordable ones get easier?
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What is showing up in one Northern California market that no county down here is doing?
Altos Research Market Action Index by price quartile, county by county. Top of the market against the bottom of the market. Days on market where you would least expect it.
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