Clear Coachella Valley-wide trends are hard to come by when it comes to the state of the local real estate market.
According to the latest market data shared with The Desert Sun, median home sale prices were up in July compared to the same month a year ago in four Coachella Valley cities, but down in the other five.
The same was true of sales, with four of cities seeing more sales than in July 2025 while the rest saw fewer. Typically, sales increase as prices decline, and vice versa. But that was also only true in four of the cities, while the other five bucked that expected correlation.
Intriguingly, the markets in neighboring cities were often going in starkly different directions. The number of homes sold was down big time in Palm Desert, while the median sale price was up by nearly 27%. But in La Quinta, median sale prices dropped by 14% and sales volume dropped, too, by more than 50%. Several other cities saw smaller shifts.
See these numbers and more in our latest monthly market breakdown below. The breakdown contains single-family home sales numbers for the nine Coachella Valley cities from July compiled by TheMLS.com, a private industry database for realtors in Southern California. The Desert Sun is able to share this data with subscribers through a partnership with Greater Palm Springs Realtors.
Home prices in Palm Springs for July
Home prices in Desert Hot Springs for July
Home prices in Cathedral City for July
Home prices in Rancho Mirage for July
Home prices in Palm Desert for July
Home prices in Indian Wells for July
Home prices in La Quinta for July
Home prices in Indio for July
Home prices in Coachella for July
Paul Albani-Burgio covers growth, development and business in the Coachella Valley. Email him at paul.albani-burgio@desertsun.com.
This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: Mixed picture for home prices in Palm Springs area
Reporting by Paul Albani-Burgio, Palm Springs Desert Sun / Palm Springs Desert Sun
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