Los Angeles housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Los Angeles home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index shows a typical home in Los Angeles, California at $927,891 in September 2026, −0.5% against a year earlier and −4.3% under the $969,339 peak set in December 2024.
- Typical value of a home
- $927,891September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- −0.5%. Compared with September 2025.
Los Angeles home prices since 2000
Los Angeles is the steel line; the United States is the grey line. The typical Los Angeles home now sits at $927,891, up from $220,092 in January 2000, a gain of ×4.22, while the US rose ×2.99 over that same stretch. The boom high was set in February 2007 at $598,963; the low came in May 2012 at $353,174, −41.0%.
Los Angeles median home price by year
Each yearly figure averages the twelve monthly values, and 2026 shows the most recent month.
| Year | Los Angeles | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $229,540 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $252,881 | +10.2% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $286,832 | +13.4% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $341,340 | +19.0% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $424,457 | +24.4% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $517,223 | +21.9% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $589,267 | +13.9% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $585,194 | −0.7% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $494,113 | −15.6% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $404,970 | −18.0% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $398,465 | −1.6% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $374,664 | −6.0% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $365,068 | −2.6% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $426,287 | +16.8% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $484,449 | +13.6% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $512,808 | +5.9% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $533,667 | +4.1% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $580,889 | +8.8% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $658,145 | +13.3% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $686,342 | +4.3% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $728,851 | +6.2% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $832,533 | +14.2% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $926,427 | +11.3% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $913,282 | −1.4% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $949,994 | +4.0% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $942,921 | −0.7% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $927,891 | −0.5% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in Los Angeles in any year is worth now
An index-based estimate of a typical home, not an appraisal.
Each year's figure averages its twelve monthly index values, and the current value is September 2026. More options: the home appreciation calculator.
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Los Angeles housing market forecast
In the Los Angeles, CA metro, Zillow's forecast shows +1.9% across the 12 months from September 2026, plus −1.0% over the next three months. If you take Los Angeles's $927,891 typical value and apply the forecast, it lands near $945,500 a year on.
This forecast restates Zillow's central estimate for the metro; the site itself publishes no forecast of its own. A forecast of this kind, looking 12 months ahead, has typically been off by several percentage points once the change is realised, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
All metro forecasts in one table: housing market forecast.
Los Angeles housing market crash risk score
High, 73 of 100
The score ranks Los Angeles against 292 cities using five conditions that ran high before earlier price falls. Every input is scored from 0 to 100 compared with the other cities, then the five scores are averaged with equal weight. It shows conditions as they are now, and it 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 | 27.9 | 90 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 11.3 | 98 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | −0.5% | 72 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. Scoring of the inputs: methodology. All 292 cities, ranked by crash risk: see the ranking.
Los Angeles inventory and days on market
For September 2026 the Los Angeles, CA metro counted 20,130 homes for sale, +4.2% compared with a year earlier and −2.1% versus the same month of 2019. Listings sold in a median of 55 days (+10.0% against 2019), and 17.1% of them had 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% |
Realtor.com® Economic Research, metro inventory. Data from Realtor.com. All metros: days on market for each city.
Los Angeles cost of living
By the Zillow Observed Rent Index, the typical asking rent in Los Angeles runs $2,772 a month, +0.8% on a year. That rent would take 27.9 years to cover the typical home. Median household income comes to $82,263 (Census ACS 2024), which puts the typical home at 11.3 times a year's income. According to BEA, prices in the metro sit at 113.6, compared with a US average of 100, while housing costs reach 170.4.
See what rent and prices run, and what salary moving there calls for: cost of living in Los Angeles.
Other California housing markets
- San Diego housing market $980,490.
- San Jose housing market $1,353,869.
- San Francisco housing market $1,441,021.
- Fresno housing market $384,885.
- Sacramento housing market $470,552.
- Long Beach $852,391
- Oakland housing market $710,647.
- Bakersfield housing market $385,686.
- Anaheim housing market $941,684.
- Stockton housing market $422,451.
For the state as a whole: California housing market.
How to read this chart
Every point plots the Zillow Home Value Index for Los Angeles: what a home typical of the market's middle third was worth, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, shown in that month's dollars. The hollow dot marks the month picked on the slider, while the terracotta dot marks the most recent month. No inflation adjustment applies to these figures, and an index tracks the typical home, not any one house: value a single home from what it sold for, with the card above or the home appreciation calculator.