Irvine housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Irvine home prices: in September 2026 the Zillow Home Value Index put a typical Irvine, California home at $1,481,490, which is −1.9% compared with a year earlier and −3.6% under the $1,537,497 peak set in April 2025.
- Typical value of a home
- $1,481,490September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- −1.9%. Measured against September 2025.
Irvine home prices since 2000
Irvine is the steel line and the United States is the grey line. From January 2000, the typical Irvine home rose from $293,080 to $1,481,490, or ×5.05, while the US recorded ×2.99 in the same months. Prices peaked during the boom in June 2006 at $735,928, then bottomed in May 2012 at $520,289, −29.3%.
Irvine median home price by year
Each yearly figure averages the twelve monthly values, and 2026 shows the latest month.
| Year | Irvine | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $309,456 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $349,299 | +12.9% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $391,648 | +12.1% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $459,163 | +17.2% | $155,308 |
| 2005 | $678,032 | $189,732 | |
| 2006 | $729,651 | +7.6% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $699,147 | −4.2% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $596,683 | −14.7% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $555,038 | −7.0% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $569,091 | +2.5% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $539,686 | −5.2% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $529,086 | −2.0% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $614,823 | +16.2% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $695,941 | +13.2% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $713,214 | +2.5% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $723,253 | +1.4% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $775,985 | +7.3% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $838,853 | +8.1% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $835,737 | −0.4% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $848,650 | +1.5% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $936,918 | +10.4% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $1,156,222 | +23.4% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $1,209,022 | +4.6% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $1,424,945 | +17.9% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $1,522,356 | +6.8% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $1,481,490 | −1.9% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in Irvine in any year is worth now
An index-based estimate of a typical home, not an appraisal.
Each yearly figure averages the twelve monthly index values behind it, and the current value is September 2026. You can also use the home appreciation calculator.
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Irvine housing market forecast
Zillow's metro forecast for the Los Angeles, CA metro puts the 12 months from September 2026 at +1.9%, and the next three months at −1.0%. Multiplying Irvine's $1,481,490 typical value by that forecast gives roughly $1,509,600 one year from now.
Here you see Zillow's central estimate for the metro; the site itself publishes no forecast. Forecasts like this one over 12 months tend to be off by several percentage points from the realised change, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
One table holds every metro forecast: housing market forecast.
Irvine housing market crash risk score
High: 77 of 100
The score ranks Irvine against 292 cities using five conditions that were high before earlier price falls. Every input gets a score from 0 to 100 when compared with the other cities, and the five results carry equal weight in the average. It shows present conditions and does not predict a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | −2.1% | 43 | 20% |
| Days on the market vs 2019 | +10.0% | 63 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 34.3 | 96 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 10.2 | 96 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | −1.9% | 89 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. Scoring of the inputs: methodology. The full ranking of all 292 cities: city crash risk rankings.
Irvine inventory and days on market
In September 2026 the Los Angeles, CA metro listed 20,130 homes for sale, +4.2% higher than a year earlier and −2.1% compared with the same month of 2019. Selling took a median of 55 days per listing (+10.0% against 2019), and 17.1% of them came with a price cut.
| Los Angeles, CA metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 20,130 | +4.2% |
| New listings | 7,762 | |
| Median days on market | 55 | −3.5% |
| Median list price | $1,034,500 | −5.9% |
| Share with a price cut | 17.1% |
Figures on metro inventory come from Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data. For every metro: days on market for each city.
Living costs in Irvine
The Zillow Observed Rent Index shows $3,604 as the typical monthly asking rent in Irvine, +1.6% on a year. Paying that rent for 34.3 years would cover the price of the typical home. Median household income stands at $145,731 (Census ACS 2024), which puts the typical home at 10.2 times a year's income. According to BEA, prices in the metro stand at 113.6 where the US average is 100, while housing costs reach 170.4.
See the salary needed to move there, along with rent and prices: cost of living in Irvine.
Other California housing markets
- $927,891 for Los Angeles.
- $980,490 for San Diego.
- $1,353,869 for San Jose.
- $1,441,021 for San Francisco.
- $384,885 for Fresno.
- $470,552 for Sacramento.
- Long Beach $852,391
- $710,647 for Oakland.
- $385,686 for Bakersfield.
- $941,684 for Anaheim.
For the state as a whole: California housing market.
How to read this chart
A point on the chart is the Zillow Home Value Index for Irvine: what a typical home, one in the middle third of the market, is worth, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, in dollars for that month. The hollow dot marks the month you have chosen on the slider, and the terracotta dot marks the latest month. Inflation has not been taken out of these figures, and an index tracks the typical home rather than one particular house: to work out what a single home is worth, use its own sale price in the card above it, or try the home appreciation calculator.