What 971 Open Houses Say About the Los Angeles Market Right Now
As of the morning of September 30, 2026, the Los Angeles open house list held 971 homes, with a median asking price of $1,095,000 and a median of $651 per square foot. Those are asking prices, not sales, but they show what the market is putting in front of visitors across the 32 places this site follows.
I pulled the list as it stood that morning: 971 homes with 1,548 open house sessions between them, counted once per home. It is a single snapshot, so everything below describes September 30 and nothing later.
The Headline Numbers
| Measure | September 30 list |
|---|---|
| Homes holding open houses in the 14-day window | 971 |
| Open house sessions | 1,548 |
| Median asking price | $1,095,000 |
| Median asking price per square foot | $651 |
| Median size | 1,764 sq ft |
| Listed by a home builder | 12 homes (1%) |
| Flagged as self tours | 0 homes |
The city of Los Angeles alone accounts for 538 of the 971 homes, 55% of the list. That is why the list-wide median sits where it does. The city’s own median ask is $1,249,500, and most of the other places on the list sit below it.
Where the Prices Fall
| Asking price | Homes | Share | Median size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $750,000 | 237 | 24% | 1,153 sq ft |
| $750,000 to $999,999 | 213 | 22% | 1,450 sq ft |
| $1 million to $1,499,999 | 231 | 24% | 1,804 sq ft |
| $1.5 million to $1,999,999 | 110 | 11% | 2,281 sq ft |
| $2 million or more | 180 | 19% | 3,568 sq ft |
The bottom three bands are close to even, at 237, 213 and 231 homes. The top is concentrated: 141 of the 180 homes asking $2 million or more are in the city of Los Angeles, with 14 in Santa Monica and 9 in Pasadena. At the other end, 61 homes ask under $500,000, and 165 of the 237 under $750,000 are spread across the city of Los Angeles (92), Santa Clarita (25), Lancaster (17), Palmdale (16) and Long Beach (15).
City by City
| City | Homes | Median price | Per sq ft | Builder share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 538 | $1,249,500 | $690 | 0% |
| Santa Clarita | 62 | $799,500 | $440 | 10% |
| Pasadena | 54 | $1,249,500 | $797 | 0% |
| Long Beach | 52 | $944,500 | $696 | 0% |
| Santa Monica | 27 | $2,395,000 | $1,494 | 0% |
| Glendale | 22 | $1,199,444 | $751 | 0% |
| Burbank | 20 | $1,262,000 | $744 | 10% |
| Redondo Beach | 19 | $1,699,000 | $864 | 0% |
| Lancaster | 18 | $557,000 | $263 | 0% |
| Whittier | 18 | $977,000 | $572 | 0% |
| Palmdale | 17 | $559,900 | $274 | 0% |
| Pomona | 16 | $629,439 | $411 | 25% |
| Alhambra | 15 | $675,000 | $627 | 0% |
| Torrance | 13 | $995,000 | $645 | 0% |
| Downey | 9 | $1,010,000 | $610 | 0% |
| West Covina | 9 | $859,000 | $536 | 0% |
| El Monte | 8 | $798,444 | $451 | 0% |
| Gardena | 7 | $849,000 | $472 | 0% |
| Norwalk | 7 | $749,900 | $596 | 0% |
| Compton | 6 | $644,500 | $590 | 0% |
| Baldwin Park | 5 | $675,000 | $644 | 0% |
| Pico Rivera | 5 | $749,990 | $444 | 0% |
| Bellflower | 4 | $819,500 | $651 | 0% |
| Carson | 4 | $864,000 | $464 | 0% |
| Hawthorne | 4 | $1,129,450 | $784 | 0% |
| Lakewood | 4 | $962,000 | $612 | 0% |
| Inglewood | 3 | $989,000 | $469 | 0% |
| Montebello | 2 | $1,074,000 | $489 | 0% |
| East Los Angeles | 1 | $839,000 | $773 | 0% |
| Florence-Graham | 1 | $1,400,000 | $593 | 0% |
| South Gate | 1 | $799,900 | $638 | 0% |
| Lynwood | 0 | – | – | – |
Places with fewer than five homes on the list, such as Inglewood, Montebello and Carson, have medians that can move a lot from one snapshot to the next. Lynwood had no homes on the list that morning.
I read the per-square-foot column first because it takes house size out of the comparison. Santa Monica is in its own category at $1,494, ahead of Redondo Beach ($864), Pasadena ($797), Glendale ($751) and Burbank ($744). The city of Los Angeles sits at $690. At the low end are Lancaster ($263) and Palmdale ($274), the two northernmost cities on the list, followed by Pomona ($411), Santa Clarita ($440) and El Monte ($451).
The by-city hub at openhousesinlosangeles.com/by-city links to the current list for every place in the table, and each city page above does the same for its own homes.
New Builds Ask Less per Foot Than Resales
Home builders list 12 of the 971 homes, about 1%. Their median ask is $392 a square foot. Every other home on the list asks a median $655. Builder homes also ask less overall, with a median of $882,642 against $1,098,800 for the rest.
Location explains part of that. All 12 are in three cities: 6 in Santa Clarita, 4 in Pomona and 2 in Burbank. Builder homes are 25% of the Pomona list and 10% of the Santa Clarita and Burbank lists, and the first two are in the lower half of the per-foot table. The Burbank pair ask $1,353,699 and $1,362,659, so a builder listing is not automatically the cheap one. Those 12 homes carry 38 sessions between them, and the two Burbank homes account for 16 of them, each on a schedule that starts September 30.
When the Open Houses Happen
The weekend of October 3 and 4 dominates. Of the 971 homes, 785 have their first listed session that weekend: 435 on the Saturday and 350 on the Sunday. Another 175 start on a Tuesday through Friday, and 11 start the following weekend. No home carries a self-tour flag, so every session on the list is a hosted one.
Start times bunch up. A total of 843 homes, 87%, have a first session starting between 11 AM and 2:59 PM, and the busiest hours are 2 PM (277 homes) and 1 PM (263). That matters for planning a route, because most of the list is open during the same early-afternoon stretch. Some 404 homes, 42%, have more than one session, and 107 have three or more, so a home that misses one slot often has another.
What I Will Watch Next
This is one morning, so it can say what the list looks like but not which way it is moving. As later snapshots from the weekly archive arrive, I can compare home counts, see which cities gain or lose listings and track how the medians shift. If you want the paperwork side before you visit, my post on touring open houses in California without an agent covers what the national rule and the state law say.
How I counted: every open house on this site’s list for the 14-day window as of the morning of September 30, 2026, taken from a weekly archive of the list. Each home is counted once by its listing ID, however many sessions it has. “Builder” is the listing-brokerage flag in that archive and covers 12 homes. Prices are asking prices from third-party listing data, not closed sales. Price per square foot uses the 966 homes that report a size. Day and start time use each home’s first listed session, shown in Pacific time. “Share” figures are rounded to whole percentages.
This page is for informational purposes only. The author is not a licensed Realtor or Brokerage in the state of California and does not represent buyers or sellers in any transaction. Listing details are provided by third-party sources and may change without notice; confirm date, time, and availability with the listing agent before visiting.
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