What will the median home value in the LA Metro area be on September 30?: how this market works

What you need to know

This market is asking: how much will a typical home in the Los Angeles area be worth on September 30, 2026? The current options cluster around $1.15 million to $1.20 million, so the real question is exactly where in that range prices land. A 'Yes' on any bracket means prices settled inside those specific dollar bounds. It is not asking whether prices rose or fell, just which precise range they land in by that date. The market settles using a specific formula: Parcl Labs publishes a price-per-square-foot figure for the LA Metro area, and that number gets multiplied by 1,900 square feet (the estimated median home size) to produce a single dollar value. Whichever bracket that dollar value falls into wins. If Parcl Labs has not published September 30 data by October 10, 2026, the most recently available data is used instead. If a value lands exactly on a bracket boundary, it rounds up to the higher bracket. None of the provided news headlines relate to LA home prices, housing policy, mortgage rates, or California real estate in any way. The headlines cover export markets, diplomatic visits, and an app ban in India. Those developments would not affect how this market resolves. What would actually matter to watch: changes in US mortgage interest rates, California housing supply data, or any major economic shifts affecting Southern California specifically. LA home prices depend on several things no one can fully predict right now: where mortgage rates sit in September 2026, how much new housing supply comes to market, whether the broader US economy stays strong or slows, and how the January 2025 LA wildfires continue to affect local inventory and insurance costs. The market leans toward the $1.153M to $1.169M bracket at 37%, but the remaining 63% is spread across other brackets, meaning genuine disagreement exists about the direction and size of any price movement over the next several months.

The odds right now

• $1.153M - $1.169M+20.0 pts (1w)39%
• $1.169M - $1.185M-5.0 pts (1w)22%
• $1.185M - $1.201M-2.5 pts (1w)16%
• $1.137M - $1.153M-1.0 pts (1w)13%
• $1.201M - $1.216M-0.3 pts (1w)6%
• $1.216M+-0.1 pts (1w)3%
• <$1.137M-2.9 pts (1w)1%

Price history

How this resolves

Resolves September 30, 2026

This market will resolve according to the median home value for all property types in the Los Angeles Metro area on September 30, 2026. If the reported value falls exactly between two brackets, then this market will resolve to the higher range bracket. Read the full resolution rules on the live market page.

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