After three years of stagnant home prices, the market has been heating up again in Ventura County in 2026.
In April, the median prices of all existing single-family homes sold in the county was $992,500, according to the most recent data from the California Association of Realtors. That was a 5.1% increase from April 2025, a year in which the median price for the state of California grew by only 0.4%. The median is the market’s midway point, at which half of the sales are for more and half are for less.
The April median is the highest on record for Ventura County, without adjusting for inflation. When adjusted for inflation, homes were more expensive in 2011 and 2022, during the pandemic, and in 2006 and 2007, just before the crash of the Great Recession.
April was the fourth month in a row that Ventura County’s median price grew from the month before. The April median of $992,500 was 9% higher than the median price had been just four months earlier.
The growth in home prices in the first quarter of 2026 has been the most rapid real estate appreciation Ventura County has seen in years. From the start of 2024 to the end of 2025, the county’s median price grew by just 5%, a little below the national inflation rate over those two years.
The number of homes sold in Ventura County declined for most of the past three years and is now on the rise again. There were 333 sales of existing single-family homes in the county in April, up 11.4% from a year earlier. That was the biggest gain in sales volume of any of the seven counties in the California Association of Realtors’ Southern California region.
Ventura County’s most expensive homes in April were in Ojai, where the median price of 17 homes sold was $1.2 million. The lowest median price was in Fillmore at $725,000 for just four sales.
Tony Biasotti is an investigative and watchdog reporter for the Ventura County Star. Reach him at tbiasotti@vcstar.com. This story was made possible by a grant from the Ventura County Community Foundation’s Fund to Support Local Journalism.
This article originally appeared on Ventura County Star: Ventura County’s median home price closer to $1M than ever
Reporting by Tony Biasotti, Ventura County Star / Ventura County Star
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