Los Altos Market Stats

Average days on market in Los Altos is 27 days. DOM is the cleanest read on demand, but it's an average. Price band, condition, and time of year all push individual homes faster or slower than the city average. Pull a neighborhood-level read for a true forecast on a specific listing.

The average sale price in Los Altos is $4.66M, at $1,686/sqft. Average is calculated from closed transactions reported to MLSListings Inc. Real estate data is always one month in arrears, which is why the freshness bar above shows the current data month.

The 5-year charts on this page show the actual trend, not a forecast. Los Altos has held a seller's posture into this cycle. Waiting works if the cost of capital you're saving outpaces appreciation and rent equivalence. Most of our clients model this on the buyer brief before locking in a strategy.

Within Santa Clara County, Los Altos sits next to Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Palo Alto. Each has its own pricing, inventory, and absorption pattern. The Nearby Cities cards below jump straight into those comparisons.