Los Altos' median sale price rose 11.9% to about $4.62 million in the three months through September 2026. Homes sold in a median nine days, typically about 8% over asking.
The numbers
- Median sale price: $4,617,801, up 11.9% year over year
- Price per square foot: about $2,170, up 15.7%
- Homes sold in September: 76, down from 80 a year earlier
- Median days on market: 9, unchanged from a year ago
- Sale-to-list ratio: 106.3%, up 0.8 points; 61.4% of homes sold above list
- Homes with price drops: 10.3%, about flat
What Zillow shows
Zillow's Home Value Index puts the typical Los Altos home at $4,591,005 as of Sept. 30, 2026, up 8.4% from a year earlier. Zillow says homes go pending in about 11 days.
What it means for buyers and sellers
Redfin rates Los Altos "most competitive," with a Compete Score of 93. Most homes get multiple offers, often with waived contingencies, and hot homes sell for about 19% over list in around six days. Only about one listing in ten had a price cut. Redfin and Zillow land within about $30,000 of each other here, which is unusual and suggests the median isn't being skewed by an odd mix of sales. See the county picture in our Santa Clara County prices by city report.
Redfin figures cover the three months through September 2026 and compare with the same period a year earlier. Zillow's Home Value Index is a typical-home estimate, not a sale price, so the two numbers measure different things and won't match exactly.