Episode 3 · Transaction Data, Bidding Wars & ValuationsUpdated 2026
Daly City Home Prices, Days on Market, Inventory
Daly City is known as a market where most houses sell above their asking price, and this page shows that the share has held steady while the winning bids have grown larger. It also shows how fast homes go under contract, why a rising median price reflects which houses sold, and how much the odds shift across price bands and parts of the city.
Median sale price
$1,210,000
-3.2% vs the prior 52 weeks
Single-family houses, 52 weeks to 25 August 2026, n = 327
Median days to contract
14 days
No change vs the prior 52 weeks
From listing to contract, not to closing, single-family houses, 52 weeks to 25 August 2026, n = 327
Closed above the original ask
71.6%
-3.4 pts vs the prior 52 weeks
232 of 324 closings with an original ask, single-family houses, 52 weeks to 25 August 2026
Homes for sale now
34
46 a year earlier
All homes for sale, weekly count for the week of 16 August 2026
💡 Key Insights & Takeaways
- Among trailing-twelve-month closings that asked under $1 million, 83.3% finished above their ask, against 43.8% in the $1.5 million to $2.5 million band, which holds only 16 closings.
- Serramonte cleared its ask on 81.0% of closings across the trailing twelve months, against 41.2% in Westlake Palisades, which rests on only 17 closings.
- In the three months to 2026-08-25 the median closing price was $1,294,000, against $1,223,500 across the trailing baseline, while the median price per square foot fell from $811 to $773, because bigger houses sold.
- Relisted homes showed a median 145.5 days from the date they were first listed, against the 20-day clock the current listing displays.
- As of August 25, 2026, 32 homes stood available at a median asking price of $1,096,500, and 28 more were already under contract.
Daly City homes cleared their asking price 72.4% of the time in the three months to August 25, 2026, against 72.8% across the two years before. The share held. What moved is the premium the winning bid paid, which widened from 11.1% to 14.4% while the middle home still went under contract in 13.5 days.
At a glance
These are the five figures that describe how the Daly City market behaved in the three months to 2026-08-25, and they cover every listing sequence recorded inside the city boundary.
| Measure | Value | Window, spread and sample |
|---|---|---|
| Middle closing price | $1,294,000 | $1,223,500 across the trailing baseline · n = 58 |
| Middle price per square foot | $773 | $811 across the trailing baseline, and the size ladder runs from $1,090 down to $727 · n = 58 |
| Share closing above the original ask | 72.4% | 72.8% across the trailing baseline, and 22.4% closed below ask · n = 58 |
| Middle days from listing to going under contract | 13.5 days | 55.2% went under contract inside two weeks · n = 58 |
| Homes standing available | 32 | The middle one asks $1,096,500, and 28 more are already under contract |
The two price rows moved in opposite directions, and both are the same fact. The middle price per square foot fell from $811 to $773 while the middle closing price rose from $1,223,500 to $1,294,000, because the middle home sold grew from 1,507.5 to 1,586 square feet. This market charges $1,090 per square foot under 1,000 square feet and $727 in the 1,500 to 2,499 band, and that $363 gap is about ten times the size of the move you are looking at. Bigger houses traded, not cheaper ones. Nothing here says prices fell, and nothing here says prices rose.
Are Daly City homes selling above asking?
Yes, and at close to the rate they have held for years. 72.4% of the 58 closings in the three months to 2026-08-25 finished above their original asking price, against 72.8% across the 562 closings in the trailing baseline.
What changed is the size of the win. Among the homes that cleared their ask, the premium — the amount by which the winning bid beat the asking price — went from 11.1% to 14.4%. This market is not bidding on more homes. It is bidding harder on the ones it wants.
The other side of the window is smaller and thinner. 22.4% of recent closings finished below their original ask, at a middle discount of 3.4%. That discount rests on 13 closings, which is a direction rather than a settled figure.
The top of the range is a single record and reads as one. A house built in the mid-2010s, 2,426 square feet, in Crown Colony, asked $1,280,000 and closed at $1,810,000 in 12 days on a first listing attempt. That is one transaction rather than a rate, and Crown Colony carries too few closings to support a median of its own.
What are Daly City homes actually selling for?
A middle price of $1,294,000 in the three months to 2026-08-25, up from $1,223,500 across the trailing baseline, on 58 closings.
That rise is not appreciation, and the fall in the rate per foot beside it is not a price cut. The middle price per square foot went from $811 to $773 over the same window. The variable that moved is size. The middle home sold measured 1,586 square feet against 1,507.5 before, which is 5.2% larger. Bigger houses traded, not cheaper ones, and the two figures move in opposite directions for that reason alone.
You can see the mechanism in the market's own size ladder, which is roughly ten times larger than the move it explains.
This is the middle price per square foot by home size across the trailing twelve months, as of 2026-08-25.
| Home size | Middle price per square foot |
|---|---|
| Under 1,000 square feet | $1,090 |
| 1,000 to 1,499 square feet | $911 |
| 1,500 to 2,499 square feet | $727 |
A $363 spread runs across those three bands. The smallest band rests on 16 closings and sits close to the sufficiency threshold, so read it as a direction rather than as a rule. Every square foot added to the middle sale pulls the citywide rate per foot down without any home changing price.
How long does a Daly City home take to sell?
13.5 days, at the middle, in the three months to 2026-08-25. Days on market here means the days from a home being listed to it going under contract, and not the days to closing. Pending dates are recorded on all 1,406 closed sequences, and the middle figure from listing to closing is 38 days, which measures a different thing entirely. More than half of recent closings moved fast: 55.2% went under contract inside two weeks.
The clock you see is not always the clock the house has been running. 7.1% of the 1,406 closings had been listed at least once before. Those sequences show a middle of 145.5 days from the date they were first listed, against the 20-day clock the current listing displays. The gap is 125 days.
The outcome gap runs alongside it. First-time listings closed above their ask 16.7 points more often than relisted ones did. A home that has already been withdrawn or expired once is not a random draw from this market, so that gap describes what happens and never what causes it. Part of it is size rather than relisting: relisted closings are 252 square feet larger at the middle, at 1,692 against 1,440, and this market pays less per foot as homes get bigger. The original asking price of a first-ever listing is not recorded in the data, so the total move from that first ask is not computed and is not estimated.
Persistence is not the same as failure. A 1950s house of 2,150 square feet in Blossom Valley, on its fourth listing attempt, asked $999,000 and closed at $1,288,000. That is one record, and it carries the same relisting caution as the figures above it.
Which Daly City homes get bid up hardest?
The cheap end and the small end, and the ordering is exact. 83.3% of trailing-twelve-month closings that originally asked under $1 million finished above their ask, at a middle of 13 days to going under contract. In the $1.5 million to $2.5 million band the above-ask share is 43.8% at a middle of 48.5 days. That band holds 16 closings and is thin, so read it as a direction.
Above-ask share falls, days to going under contract rise, and the rate per square foot falls at every step up the ladder. The rate per foot falling as budgets rise is a size effect and not a discount — larger homes cost more in total and less per foot.
Nothing in that ordering says you should shop at the bottom of the ladder. It says the competition you meet is a function of the band you enter.
Where in Daly City does the market split?
Wider than the citywide figures suggest. Nine named sub-areas carry enough closings to support a median, and across the trailing twelve months they run from 81.0% above ask down to 41.2%.
This is how the pricing outcome splits across the named sub-areas, across the trailing twelve months, as of 2026-08-25.
| Sub-area | Above-ask share | n | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serramonte | 81.0% | 42 | This is the most competitive place to bid in the city, and it clears its ask more often than anywhere else in this table |
| 'Original' Daly City | not carried on this page | 89 | This is the largest sub-area by volume, and 89 closings make it the deepest single market inside the city |
| Westlake Palisades | 41.2% | 17 — thin, directional | This is the weakest place to bid, and 17 closings make it the figure on this page most likely to move when we measure again |
Those splits carry the same caution as the citywide pair. A sub-area median on closing price or on price per square foot reflects the size of the homes that traded there as well as what they were worth, so a lower rate per foot in one area is not evidence that homes there are cheaper for the same house.
Only the sub-areas carrying enough closings to support a median are published here, and they are not all of Daly City's sub-areas. Where you look in this city moves your odds more than when you look.
What is for sale in Daly City right now?
32 homes stood available as of 2026-08-25, and the middle one asks $1,096,500. A further 28 sequences were already under contract.
This is what standing supply and turnover look like as of 2026-08-25.
| Measure | Value | Basis and sample |
|---|---|---|
| Homes available | 32 | n = 32 |
| Middle asking price | $1,096,500 | n = 32 |
| Already under contract | 28 | n = 28 |
| Months of standing supply | 1.2 months | Derived from 32 available against the trailing-twelve-month absorption rate |
| Share of homes changing hands in a year | 1.28% | 24,685 parcels citywide · n = 317 |
| Closings paid in cash | 14.2% | Trailing twelve months · n = 330 |
One of those available homes has been running a long clock in the open. A 1970s house of 1,150 square feet in Southern Hills has stood available for 140 days and is now asking $1,215,000, up from the $1,188,000 it first asked. That is one listing rather than a pattern, and no reason for the change in price is stated or inferred here.
Turnover is thin underneath all of it. 1.28% of Daly City's 24,685 parcels changed hands in the trailing twelve months. Cash is a minority and a real one, at 14.2% of the 330 trailing-twelve-month closings.
Volume is the softest reading in the data. The recent window ran 20.8 closings a month against 26.9 across the baseline. The data closes on 2026-08-18, seven days before the as-of date, so the final week of the window is unobserved rather than quiet, and closings recorded late near that boundary would raise the recent figure rather than lower it.
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