Orange County Coastal Market Report: October 2026

Closings through September 2026: this issue covers homes that closed from July 1 to September 30, 2026 in eleven Orange County markets, from Aliso Viejo to Newport Coast. You will see what homes sold for, how fast they went under contract and where buyers found room to bargain. From this issue on, every figure comes from the California Regional MLS, the same records behind our city pages.

The Coast at a Glance

Where Prices Are Climbing

Corona del Mar led the eleven markets in this report, up 23.2 percent from July through September 2025 to a $4.56M median. Ladera Ranch rose 16.9 percent to $1.45M and Laguna Beach 16.5 percent to $3.35M. Dana Point gained 12.4 percent to $2.02M, Newport Beach 10.8 percent to $3.65M and San Clemente 9.1 percent to $1.80M. San Clemente also moved fastest: its homes went under contract in 12 days at the median, and 23.1 percent of its sales closed above the original list price. San Juan Capistrano rose 3.3 percent to $1.40M.

Newport Coast rose 18.2 percent to a $6.24M median on 26 sales across the three months. With so few closings, one or two estate sales can move the Newport Coast median sharply in either direction, so give that figure less weight than the others.

Where Buyers Have Room to Negotiate

Buyers paid furthest below the original list price on the coast. In Laguna Beach the median home sold at 92.6 percent of its original list price and took 38 days to go under contract, the longest of the eleven markets. Newport Coast homes closed at 94.5 percent of original list after 22 days, and Newport Beach homes at 94.8 percent after 36 days.

Prices eased in three markets. Irvine fell 7.3 percent to a $1.44M median, and its homes sold at 96.1 percent of original list after 32 days. Laguna Niguel eased 5.1 percent to $1.38M and Aliso Viejo 1.8 percent to $940K, the lowest median of the eleven markets, though homes in both still sold close to their asking price, at 97.9 and 98.0 percent of original list. Ladera Ranch showed the opposite pattern: its median home sold at 100 percent of its original list price, and 40.4 percent of its sales closed above it.

What It Means for Sellers

Homes in these eleven markets went under contract in 12 to 38 days at the median, fastest in San Clemente (12 days), Ladera Ranch (19), and Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel and San Juan Capistrano (21 each). Median sale prices rose 12.4 to 23.2 percent from a year earlier in Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, Ladera Ranch, Laguna Beach and Dana Point. In Laguna Beach, though, buyers paid 92.6 percent of the original list price at the median, so an accurate price from the first day can make a real difference there. Start with a free home valuation to see where your home sits in this market.

What It Means for Buyers

On November 4, 2,118 homes were for sale across the eleven markets in this report, with the deepest selection in Irvine (814), Newport Beach (282), Laguna Beach (179) and San Clemente (170). Irvine pairs the widest choice with a median 7.3 percent below last year, and prices eased in Laguna Niguel and Aliso Viejo too. Search current listings to see what is available today.

About the Numbers

These figures come from closed home sales recorded in the California Regional MLS (CRMLS) from July 1 to September 30, 2026, the same records behind our city pages: single-family homes, condos and townhomes, one sale per parcel and closing date. The median sale price is the middle closing price in each city. The change from last year compares the same three months of 2025, shown only where both periods had at least 15 sales. Days on market is the MLS median, counted to contract. New listings counts the homes that came on the market in September. Our city pages show a rolling 90 days and update daily, so their figures move between issues. Issues before October 2026 used Redfin’s ZIP-code medians, so compare changes within an issue rather than prices across issues.

For live listings and neighborhood detail, visit each market’s page from the table above or see the full Orange County real estate guide. The previous issue is the September 2026 report.

Information sourced from CRMLS. Based on information from California Regional Multiple Listing Service, Inc. as of November 4, 2026. Realatrends Real Estate.

For the longer view, see our Orange County real estate statistics, comparing every city against 2019 and 2012.