Long Beach Housing Market Update: June 2026

Long Beach was a balanced market leaning toward sellers in June 2026. More homes sold than a year ago, they sold faster, and there was less to choose from.

With all of that in the sellers' favor, the median price moved 0.6 percent.

The quick read

• $880,000 median sale price, up 0.6 percent from June 2025. A full year of tighter supply and faster sales, and the price needle barely moved.
• 270 new listings, down 15 percent from a year ago. Fewer Long Beach owners are choosing to sell, and that is the biggest change in this market.
• 231 homes sold, up 4.5 percent year over year and the busiest June in three years. Demand is not the problem.
• 16 days to an accepted offer, down from 19 last June. Well-priced homes are moving.
• 83 listings came off the market without selling, against 231 that closed. Roughly three of every ten sellers who reached a decision point in June did not get it done.

That is the gist. Everything below is the detail behind it, and you can stop reading wherever it stops being useful to you.

At a glance

Long Beach residential market, June 2026. Source: CRMLS, pulled July 27, 2026. As of late July there were 591 active listings and 243 homes in escrow.

Start with the row that matters most: new listings. Everything else in this report follows from the fact that fewer people are putting their Long Beach homes up for sale.

What this means for you

If you are buying. You are competing over a smaller pool, and the good ones are spoken for in about two weeks. The flat price line is working in your favor, though: you are not paying meaningfully more than a buyer did last summer. Get fully underwritten before you shop, because at 16 days you will not have time to sort out financing after you find the house.

If you are selling. Speed is on your side. Price is not. A home that sold for $875,000 last June sells for about $880,000 now, and that is before whatever you give back at the closing table. Price to the comparable sales, not to the headline. The sellers who did not close in June mostly got there by starting too high and adjusting too late.

If you already own. Price per square foot in Long Beach has gone essentially nowhere for two and a half years, which means your equity gain has come from paying down principal rather than from appreciation. If you are weighing a move up, the gap you have to cover has not grown either. That is the quiet good news in this report.

What changed

• New listings fell to 270, from 318 in June 2025 and 285 in June 2024. That is the thinnest June for new supply in three years.
• Sales rose to 231, up from 221 last year and 200 the year before.
• Median days to sell dropped to 16 from 19, though that is still slower than the 13 days I was seeing in June 2024.
• Months of inventory tightened to roughly four, from five a year ago.
• Median price per square foot came in at $640, up from $632. Over the last 30 months that number has moved inside a band of $612 to $682. It has gone nowhere.

Sellers won on speed and lost on price

Put both halves of this market together and you get something that does not match the usual story. Supply is down 15 percent. Sales are up 4.5 percent. Homes are selling three days faster than a year ago. Every one of those points in the seller's direction.

And the median price rose 0.6 percent.

That gap is the story of June. Buyers are showing up and competing, but they are not bidding prices up. They are getting to the table faster and then negotiating hard on everything that is not the headline number.

179 Long Beach listings changed price during June. In a market carrying roughly 600 active listings at any given moment, that is a lot of repricing happening after homes hit the market instead of before.

Then there is the number almost nobody publishes. 83 Long Beach listings expired, were canceled, or were withdrawn in June, against 231 that closed. Of every ten listings that came off the market one way or another, about three came off without a sale. If you are interviewing agents right now and none of them has mentioned that statistic, it is worth asking why.

The citywide median is the least useful number in this report

I lead with $880,000 because it is the number people search for. It is also close to meaningless for any specific house.

Over the last twelve months, the median Long Beach sale price by area ran from $503,500 in Downtown and Alamitos Beach to $1,630,240 in Park Estates. That is a 3.2x spread inside one city.

Read that again. Two homes in the same city, often the same school district, same market report, and one neighborhood's midpoint is more than three times the other's.

When a market report tells you Long Beach is up or down some percentage without telling you which Long Beach, it is not telling you much. A buyer priced out of Belmont Shore is not priced out of the Eastside, and an Eastside seller reading a citywide number is reading somebody else's market.

Median sale price by Long Beach area

Median sale price by CRMLS marketing area, August 2025 through July 2026, 2,206 closed sales. Source: CRMLS.

A note on the area names: these are CRMLS marketing areas, not city boundaries, and every sale in this table is a City of Long Beach address. Several areas carry names borrowed from neighboring communities because those lines were drawn decades ago and do not follow the city limit. If a name surprises you, that is why.

Neighborhood spotlight: Bixby Knolls and Los Cerritos

Median sale price over the last twelve months: $1,005,000. Closings in June 2026: 25.

Bixby Knolls sits almost exactly at the midpoint of the Long Beach price ladder, a little above the citywide median and well below the coastal areas, which makes it a useful bellwether for the whole city. Twenty-five sales in a single month is a healthy pace for an area this size, and the twelve-month median has crossed $1,000,000, a line this neighborhood spent a long time under.

The numbers do not tell you why people actually move here. A lot of families settle into Bixby Knolls to stay while their children grow up, and the schools are a real part of that. Walk through in the evening and people are out: sitting on their front porches, walking dogs, watching their kids play in the front yards. It is the kind of neighborhood most people assume no longer exists.

Starting the scoreboard

Every edition of this series ends the same way: what I said last month, and what actually happened. This is the first one, so there is nothing to grade yet. Here is what I am watching for July.

This is my read of the market, not a sourced statistic, so weigh it accordingly. Hold me to it next month either way.

Frequently asked questions

Is it a buyer's market or a seller's market in Long Beach right now?
Long Beach is a balanced market leaning toward sellers as of June 2026, with roughly four months of inventory and a median 16 days to an accepted offer. Sellers are not getting price increases, though, and roughly three in ten listings came off the market without selling. The seller advantage right now is about speed, not money.

What is the average home price in Long Beach?
The median sale price for a Long Beach home was $880,000 in June 2026, and the median price per square foot was $640. I use median rather than average because a handful of very high sales pull an average upward and make it less useful to you.

Are Long Beach home prices going up or down?
Neither, in any way you would feel. The median rose 0.6 percent from June 2025 to June 2026, and median price per square foot has stayed inside a band of $612 to $682 for the last 30 months. Long Beach prices have been effectively flat for two and a half years.

How long does it take to sell a house in Long Beach?
The median Long Beach home went under contract in 16 days in June 2026, down from 19 days a year earlier. That is the midpoint, so half of them took longer. And roughly three of every ten listings that came off the market in June did so without selling at all.

Which Long Beach neighborhoods are the most affordable?
Over the twelve months through July 2026, the Downtown and Alamitos Beach area had the lowest median sale price at $503,500, followed by the Eastside and Circle area at $567,000 and Poly High at $645,000.

How much below asking can I offer on a Long Beach home?
That depends far more on how long the home has been listed than on any citywide rule. With 179 listings changing price during June alone, a home that has been sitting has usually already told you how flexible the seller is. Ask what the original list price was, not just the current one.

Sources and method

Data reflects closed and active residential listings in the City of Long Beach for June 2026, pulled from CRMLS on July 27 and 28, 2026. Figures include single family, condominium, and townhome sales unless noted. Active and pending counts are snapshots taken at pull time in late July, not June 30 figures. Neighborhood medians cover August 2025 through July 2026. Market conditions vary a great deal by neighborhood and price point, and no citywide figure should be applied to a specific property without a closer look.

If you want an honest read on what any of this means for your actual situation, whether you are thinking about listing or trying to figure out what you can buy, join the Dream Home Club for straight takes and a first look at opportunities, or reach out and we will make a plan together. No pressure, just clear answers.

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Be well,
David

For informational purposes only and not legal, tax, or financial advice. Market data reflects June 2026 CRMLS figures and conditions change. Verify current numbers before relying on them. David Mercier, DRE #02096621.