Long Beach had 99 homes holding open houses when I pulled the list on November 1, 2026, with a median ask of $899,000. The city has 455,548 residents and an average commute of 29.9 minutes, both from the Census ACS 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates.

On the List Now

The public feed pull ran at 9:16 AM Pacific on November 1, 2026, and covers sessions from November 1 to November 14. Long Beach came back on 2 pages and I fetched it 3 times, then deduplicated by listing ID so no home counts twice. Everything below counts unique homes, not sessions.

• 99 unique homes: 98 hosted resale, 1 self-tour, 0 builder (November 1, 2026)
• Median ask for the 98 hosted homes: $899,000, or $677 per square foot, at a median size of 1,333 square feet
• Asking prices run from $199,999 to $3,350,000
• Price bands: 12 homes under 500K, 23 from 500K to 750K, 21 from 750K to 1 million, 37 from 1 million to 2 million, and 5 over 2 million
• Bedrooms: 37 homes with 3, 28 with 2, 13 with 4, 11 with 1 and 5 with 5, plus single homes at 0, 6 and 7 bedrooms and one with no bedroom count

The builder count is a brokerage-name match, so zero means no builder brokerage name appeared among the 99 homes. The one self-tour home is kept out of the medians above and out of the hosted count.

Long Beach’s $677 per square foot matches the county figure on the same pull, which was $677 across 2,094 homes. The median ask is still $250,900 below the county’s $1,149,900, and the gap comes from size: the Long Beach median home is 1,333 square feet against 1,780 countywide. Prices are spread rather than bunched, with 56 of the 98 hosted asks under 1 million and the largest single band, 37 homes, between 1 and 2 million.

Eight ZIP codes in the feed file hold 90 of the 99 homes. 90802 leads with 18, followed by 90808 with 15, 90815 with 14, 90803 with 13 and 90805 with 11, which together hold 71 of the 90. 90806 has 9, 90807 has 6 and 90814 has 4. I have no file that ties these ZIP codes to neighborhood names, so I’m leaving the names out. If I were mapping a Sunday, I’d sort the list by ZIP before anything else. Keller Williams Pacific Estate is the listing brokerage on 13 of the 99 homes, Compass on 5, and Coldwell Banker Realty and First Team Real Estate on 4 each.

How Open Houses Run Here

The hosted homes carry 104 sessions in the window, and 94 of them start on a Sunday. Eight start on a Saturday, and one each on Monday, November 2 and Thursday, November 5. By start hour, 46 sessions begin in the 1 PM hour and 34 in the 12 PM hour, so 80 of the 104 start within those two hours. Another 15 start in the 11 AM hour, 5 in the 2 PM hour, and 2 each in the 10 AM and 3 PM hours.

• Sunday, November 1: 90 of the 99 homes have a session
• Saturday, November 7: 5 homes so far
• Sunday, November 8: 4 homes so far
• Saturday, November 14: 3 homes so far

The November 1 count is large because I pulled the list that Sunday morning, with the day’s sessions still ahead. The counts for November 7, 8 and 14 are floors, because the list fills in during the week. If I were planning a Saturday on November 7, I’d treat 5 homes as the start of the list and pull it again on Thursday and Friday before ordering any stops.

What I Would Check in Long Beach

The Census median year a Long Beach housing unit was built is 1959 (ACS 2020 to 2024 five-year), so about half the city’s units date from 1959 or earlier. The median value of an owner-occupied home is $806,600, which is $92,400 below the $899,000 median ask. The two are different measures: one covers every owner-occupied home, the other covers asking prices on homes holding open houses. Of 170,927 occupied units, 70,363 are owner-occupied and 100,564 are rented.

A median year built before 1980 brings an earthquake program into view. The California Residential Mitigation Program’s Earthquake Brace + Bolt page says the program retrofits wood-framed homes built before 1980 with a raised foundation. It does brace-and-bolt work where the house has short cripple walls and bolt-only work where the frame sits on a stem wall. Grants go up to $3,000, and a supplemental grant of up to 100% of the cost is available to income-eligible households, with the page stating an income limit of $94,480 or less. Eligibility is by ZIP code, across more than 1,100 high-hazard ZIP codes as of January 15, 2025. I did not check whether any Long Beach ZIP is on that list, so for any house I’d check whether its ZIP is listed. If I were looking at a pre-1980 house on a raised foundation, I’d ask the host whether it has been braced and bolted.

California Civil Code section 1103.2 says the Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement covers, among other things, FEMA special flood hazard areas (zone A or V), dam failure inundation areas, and high or very high fire hazard severity zones. If I were looking at a home close to the coast or the river, I’d read that statement for the flood zone line first. That is what the statute lists, not a finding about any Long Beach address.

For a coastal city I also keep four questions that I can’t answer from any source I have. If I were touring near the water, I’d ask how the marine layer and salt air have treated the exterior and metal fixtures, whether an older bungalow’s permit history matches what is built, whether additions were permitted, and what the ADU rules allow on that lot.

Getting Around

In the Census ACS 2020 to 2024 five-year estimates, the average commute in Long Beach is 29.9 minutes, against 30.4 for Los Angeles County. Of Long Beach commuters, 21.0% travel 45 minutes or more and 11.4% travel 60 or more, against 12.3% at 60 or more countywide. Work from home is 16.2% in Long Beach and 17.1% for the county. The 2024 one-year estimate runs higher, at 31.2 minutes with 12.0% at 60 or more, and carries a wider margin of error, so I use the five-year set. The 45-minute share means roughly one commuter in five has a long trip even with a mean under 30. For how Long Beach sits among the other places on the site, see Los Angeles County commute times by city.

Eight Metro A Line stations sit in the city: 1st Street, 5th Street, Downtown Long Beach, Pacific Ave, Anaheim Street, Pacific Coast Hwy, Willow Street and Wardlow. Long Beach has no Metrolink station. Seven freeways run inside the city limits: I-405, I-605, I-710, SR 22, SR 47, SR 91 and SR 103. If I were weighing a house near an A Line station, I’d ask how far the walk to the platform is, and I’d check which of those freeways is closest.

Long Beach Airport (LGB) is closest to the Wardlow station on the A Line. Long Beach Transit routes 102, 104 and 111 and Commuter Express 405 serve the airport. I give no drive times in this guide, because none of my sources has one with a time of day.

For work, the city’s FY24 list of top employers is led by Long Beach Unified School District, the City of Long Beach, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, the VA Medical Center and CSU Long Beach. The Port of Long Beach handled 9.6 million TEUs in 2024, per the city’s FY26 adopted budget. A 2023 study by EBP US, released May 12, 2025, counted more than 691,000 Southern California jobs connected to Port trade. Those are impact jobs across five counties, not people employed on port property.

What Changes Next

• I-710: the freeway widening was suspended and replaced by the Long Beach-East LA Corridor Mobility Investment Plan, adopted April 2024, at $743M. It covers 18 cities plus 3 unincorporated communities, includes no freeway widening, and includes zero-emission truck charging sites.
• Shoemaker Bridge replacement, I-710 to downtown, about $900M: as of July 2026 the city says it remains in design and is pursuing funding, with no completion date available. The earlier goal of finishing before the 2028 Olympics is not confirmed.
• Super 605 Freeway Enhancements, Segment 1, Katella Ave to Telegraph Rd (Los Alamitos, Long Beach and Santa Fe Springs): started fall 2023, done early 2028, covering pavement, guardrail, signs and landscaping. The full program is $298.4M.

The I-710 plan adds no lanes, so the freeway as it stands today is the one the plan works around. The Shoemaker Bridge has no completion date, so I’d treat any claim about its opening as unconfirmed.

Neighbors and Comparisons

On the same November 1, 2026 pull, Lakewood had 7 homes with a median ask of $905,000 and $732 per square foot, at a median size of 1,158 square feet. Carson had 9 homes with a median ask of $819,900 and $448 per square foot, at a median size of 1,650 square feet. Only 7 and 9 homes stand behind those medians, against 98 hosted homes in Long Beach, so one listing can move them.

The per-square-foot figure is where the three differ most. Lakewood’s median ask is $6,000 above Long Beach’s but its homes are smaller, which puts it at $732 against $677. Carson’s median ask is $79,100 below Long Beach’s with larger homes, which puts it at $448.

Another city in the Long Beach and Gateway region, Whittier, has a published guide at Living in Whittier CA. The by-city page lists open houses for all 32 places on the site, which makes it the place to pull Long Beach, Lakewood and Carson side by side before a Saturday.

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