{"id":364947,"date":"2026-06-17T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364947\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:57:07","slug":"bay-area-sales-help-set-new-record-for-california-median-home-prices-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/364947\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area sales help set new record for California median home prices \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

Median home prices in California are at an all-time high with Bay Area sales helping set a new record for the state, the California Association of Realtors<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

New numbers released by CAR<\/a> show the median price for a single-family home in the state is $930,260 as of May 2026. The record is a 2.3% jump since April 2026, which is more than double the historical average increase between the two months.<\/p>\n

In the Bay Area, the region also set a record high last month with a median price for a single-family home at $1.45 million \u2014 a 3.6% jump from April.<\/p>\n

Three Bay Area counties saw median home prices over $2 million, the highest across the state. These include San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.<\/p>\n

San Francisco County’s median is currently $2.2 million, a 22.2% increase since May 2025.<\/p>\n

San Mateo County’s median is currently $2.4 million, a 9.1% increase since May 2025.<\/p>\n

Santa Clara County’s median is currently $2.1 million, a 2.5% decrease since May 2025.<\/p>\n

Not every Bay Area county saw an increase: Marin County saw 4% drop and Santa Clara County experienced a 3.3% dip.<\/p>\n

See CAR’s county breakdown of median home prices and the month-to-month change below.<\/p>\n

Bay Area CountyMay 2026April 2026May 2025Price MTM% ChgPrice YTY% ChgSales MTM% ChgSales YTY% ChgAlameda$1,400,000$1,325,000$1,365,0005.7%2.6%6.6%1.6%Contra Costa$935,000$875,000$924,9506.9%1.1%12.4%5.4%Marin$1,810,000$1,810,000$1,885,0000.0%-4.0%13.2%7.5%Napa$927,000$887,000$920,0004.5%0.8%25.0%16.9%San Francisco$2,200,000$2,127,500$1,801,0003.4%22.2%6.1%19.7%San Mateo$2,401,000$2,300,000$2,200,0004.4%9.1%-12.1%-0.3%Santa Clara$2,100,100$2,100,000$2,171,1200.0%-3.3%-2.5%7.6%Solano$599,950$579,000$590,0003.6%1.7%-4.5%-3.3%Sonoma$875,760$854,000$860,0002.5%1.8%-2.0%10.7%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Median home prices in California are at an all-time high with Bay Area sales helping set a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6726,7,9,8,1011],"class_list":["post-364947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bay-area-housing","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}